Musk warns that he will ban Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at operating system level

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday (Jun 10) he would ban Apple gadgets at his companies if the iPhone maker integrates OpenAI at the working system level.

“That is an unacceptable security violation,” Musk, who’s the CEO of electrical-car maker Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX and owner of social media company X, said in a post on X.

“And company will want to appear at their Apple gadgets at the door, the place they’ll be saved in a Faraday cage,” he said.

Apple and OpenAI did now not straight answer to Reuters requests for comments.

Earlier in the day, Apple announced a slew of AI aspects at some stage in its apps and working platforms and a partnership with OpenAI to instruct the ChatGPT technology to its gadgets.

Apple said it had built AI with privateness “at the core” and it would expend a combination of on-tool processing and cloud computing to power those aspects.

“It is patently absurd that Apple is now not tidy ample to originate their very comprise AI, but is someway perhaps well able to guaranteeing that OpenAI will provide protection to your security & privateness!” Musk said on X.

Firstly of March, Musk had sued OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015, and its CEO Sam Altman, asserting they abandoned the startup’s customary mission to manufacture AI for the coolest thing about humanity and now not for income.

Musk has furthermore founded his comprise startup, xAI, in a dispute to teach OpenAI and construct an replacement to the viral chatbot ChatGPT.

xAI was valued at US$24 billion in its last funding spherical, the place it raised $6 billion in assortment B funding.