SpaceXAI (and X Corp, by extension), have asked a Texas federal court on 14 September 2026 to drop their antitrust claims against Apple Inc., saying those claims have been “resolved,” while keeping the case alive against OpenAI.
Apple’s move was to not oppose the dismissal with prejudice. For those following along in the Grok-vs-ChatGPT fight over distribution over the iOS App Store, that clears Apple from the suit without spelling out exactly what “resolved” means.
The motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(2). Public reporting of the filing broke around 11:09 a.m. ET the same day. The motion to voluntarily dismiss and the CourtListener RECAP copy provide all the initial details on the case, with Reuters and CNBC reporting on the case yesterday as well.
Apple Out, OpenAI Still In
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the now-defunct X Corp and SpaceXAI (as the lawsuit was filed before the corporate merger). Apple Inc. is the defendant that they wish to have dismissed with prejudice, which means that those Apple claims are not meant to be refiled later in the same suit.
OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI, L.L.C., and OpenAI OpCo are not part of that dismissal — those claims remain active in the same Texas case. OpenAI told the court it was not a party to any agreement with Apple and does not know the terms.
That means the resolution conducted between Apple, SpaceXAI, and X Corp was done behind closed doors, and that OpenAI is not privy to the actual details of the resolution agreement, whatever it may be. The filing does not disclose any settlement amounts, App Store placement concessions, Apple Intelligence hooks, ChatGPT distribution changes, or any Apple-SpaceXAI product deals.
Why The Split Matters
The original Texas antitrust story was never only about Apple or only about OpenAI. For people who use Grok on X, or who watch how ChatGPT shows up inside Apple’s stack, the question was instead about model access and selection, similar to how you can choose your search engine and browser when you first install Microsoft Windows.
Pulling Apple out of the case ends one front of that fight in Fort Worth. It does not, by itself, prove that Grok gained App Store or Apple Intelligence parity, and it does not prove ChatGPT’s place on Apple hardware is changing overnight.
However, it does clear up the fact that Apple is leaving the suit unopposed, and that OpenAI was not privy to whatever deal was hashed out between SpaceXAI and Apple going forward into the future. For now, the next steps of the lawsuit will focus on the issues between OpenAI and SpaceXAI.
