The lawsuit arrived at the height of Musk’s long-running feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Earlier this year, a jury sided with OpenAI in a separate lawsuit Musk filed over the company’s shift away from its original nonprofit structure, finding that Musk had waited too long to sue.

The lawsuit reportedly argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.

It's clear that an agreement among the chief rivals in AI that their progress “should be slower than competition would otherwise produce has an anti-competitive effect on consumers,” the plaintiffs argue.

X Corp and SpaceXAI permanently dropped their antitrust claims against Apple, but their case against OpenAI continues after a judge rejected access to the confidential deal.

Elon Musk filed to have Apple dismissed from the lawsuit he brought against it and OpenAI, and OpenAI demanded answers. The judge has denied OpenAI's request to reveal settlement terms.

Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI can keep the terms of their confidential settlement with Apple secret after ​a federal judge denied OpenAI's request for the agreement, ‌which the ChatGPT maker said could help bolster its defenses in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.