OpenAI asks Texas judge to toss xAI antitrust suit, citing SpaceX disclosures

OpenAI's motion before the Fort Worth court

OpenAI asked U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth to enter judgment in its favor before trial in the antitrust case brought by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI, with a trial currently scheduled for January. The company argued that the evidence already gathered in the case, including deposition testimony and the registration statement SpaceX filed when it began publicly trading in June, contradicts xAI's allegations that Apple's integration of ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence features shut out rival AI providers on iPhones and other Apple devices.

Reliance on SpaceX disclosures

In its filing, OpenAI pointed to disclosures in SpaceX's initial public offering registration statement, which it described as "replete with disclosures diametrically opposed" to xAI's claims of competitive harm, adding that the filing "bears no resemblance to the doomsaying in this litigation." SpaceX, identified in court papers as the parent of xAI, is among the Musk-owned companies that sued Apple and OpenAI last year alleging Apple's integration of ChatGPT violated antitrust law.

Challenge to monopoly and competitive-harm claims

OpenAI denied wielding monopoly power, an element it said is necessary to establish an antitrust violation, and urged the judge to rule based on the record so far. The company told the court that by early last year "Apple's integration of ChatGPT appeared to be off to a slow start" and that OpenAI had "cut its forecast for the number of incremental logged-in weekly active users that it expected to obtain as a direct result of the integration," characterizing the rollout as far from a chatbot monopoly among iPhone users by the time Musk sued.

Status of the parties and parallel settlement

Apple and OpenAI have denied wrongdoing in the case, and Apple has previously said its integration deal with OpenAI was not exclusive. X said last week it has settled with Apple, though the terms have not been disclosed. Apple, OpenAI and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on OpenAI's new filing. The case is captioned X Corp and SpaceXAI v OpenAI, No. 4:25-cv-00914-P, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, with X represented by Craig Reiser and Bradley Justus of Axinn and Judd Stone II of Stone Hilton, and OpenAI represented by Stephen DiPrima of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Ralph Duggins of Cantey Hanger.

Open questions

The central unresolved question is whether Judge Pittman will grant OpenAI's pretrial judgment motion or let the dispute proceed to the January trial. It also remains to be seen whether the court will treat the undisclosed X-Apple settlement, now joined with the SpaceX filing record, as further weakening the competitive-harm theory or whether xAI will seek to distinguish those disclosures.