Tesla’s Elon Musk says AI deal with Apple gives Google “unreasonable concentration of power”

Apple has selected Google’s Gemini AI model to power the next generation of Siri — and Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk is not pleased. Responding on X to Google’s announcement, Musk wrote that the deal “seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google,” pointing to the company’s control of Android and Chrome.

Musk has previously sued Apple, accusing the company of unfairly favoring OpenAI’s ChatGPT — with which Apple also has a more limited AI partnership — in its App Store. Musk’s xAI, which works closely with Tesla, develops a competing AI model, Grok. Long considered the AI front-runner, OpenAI, which was also in the running to power Siri, has been facing increased competition from Google.

In a monopoly case last September, a judge ruled that agreements such as Apple’s deal to preload Google Search on Safari were permissible as long as they were not exclusive — a decision that may have helped clear the path for the companies’ new multiyear AI partnership.