OpenAI reportedly to sue Apple for "breach of contract"! Furiously slams Siri's ChatGPT integration for falling short, billions in subscriptions fall through

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AI marriage of the century reportedly collapses! According to foreign media reports, OpenAI is brewing legal action against Apple, dissatisfied that Apple "didn't even try" in their collaboration to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, causing OpenAI's expected multi-billion-dollar subscription pie to become an illusion. Just as Apple prepares to announce its embrace of Google Gemini and Claude at the upcoming WWDC conference, OpenAI executives angrily blasted that trusting Apple back then was a mistake. Combined with OpenAI's recent aggressive poaching of Apple hardware engineers, the conflict between the two tech giants is fully escalating. (Background: Altman testifies in court: Musk once demanded OpenAI be merged into Tesla, considered running for California Governor when fired) (Background context: Anthropic's valuation soars to $900 billion, overtaking OpenAI! Reportedly plans to raise $30 billion, IPO could launch as early as October) Two years after the partnership agreement that shocked the tech world was signed in 2024, the AI marriage between OpenAI and Apple appears to be heading toward an embarrassing courtroom showdown. According to the latest report from Bloomberg, OpenAI is extremely dissatisfied with the actual results of the ChatGPT and Siri integration. Its internal lawyers are currently working closely with external law firms to formulate a series of legal options that may be formally executed in the near future, including issuing a formal notice of "alleged breach of contract" to Apple, and not ruling out filing a full-scale lawsuit. At the core of this conflict lies the "massive gap in expected revenue." In the agreement reached in 2024, the two parties did not engage in direct monetary transactions (Apple did not pay technology licensing fees), and OpenAI's profit model relied entirely on iOS users subscribing to paid ChatGPT via the iPhone "Settings" app. OpenAI originally firmly believed that, leveraging Apple's massive mobile ecosystem, this partnership could generate "billions of dollars" in subscription revenue annually. However, reality has been extremely harsh, with actual revenue falling far short of targets. An anonymous OpenAI executive complained to the media: "We did everything we were supposed to do at the product level, but they (Apple) didn't, and worse, they didn't even make an honest effort." The executive revealed that Apple refused to share specific product details at the time, only asking OpenAI to "take a leap of faith and trust us." In retrospect, this game of trust has been a complete failure for OpenAI. The timing of this brewing legal action is extremely sensitive, coinciding with Apple's upcoming annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). According to reports, Apple is expected to announce at the conference a new generation of Siri powered by Google Gemini, and to allow users in iOS 27 to integrate other AI models, including Anthropic's Claude. Although the agreement never stipulated "Exclusive" terms, OpenAI clearly feels that it has been "discarded after crossing the river." Sources indicate that OpenAI has no interest in developing new models with Apple, because they have already been burned in the initial collaboration. An OpenAI executive bluntly stated: "Apple's market power is too strong; they can issue orders at will." In addition to the grievances over software integration, the rivalry between the two sides in the hardware sector has further worsened the relationship. OpenAI is currently led by former legendary Apple design director Jony Ive, secretly developing its own AI hardware product, and has poached a large number of engineers from within Apple for this purpose. According to reports, Apple executives have been "fuming for over a year" over OpenAI's highly aggressive recruitment tactics. Currently, ChatGPT is still integrated into iOS features such as Siri and Visual Intelligence as a fallback for world knowledge queries. The report indicates that OpenAI has not yet made a final decision and still holds hope of reaching an "out-of-court settlement" with Apple, but the rift between the two tech giants is clearly difficult to mend.

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