{"id":3735527,"date":"2026-05-14T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/?p=3735527"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:46:13","slug":"openai-weighs-lawsuit-as-apple-ai-partnership-sours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/partnerships\/2026\/openai-weighs-lawsuit-as-apple-ai-partnership-sours\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Weighs Lawsuit as Apple AI Partnership Sours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\">OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0is preparing a potential future lawsuit against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0due to dissatisfaction with the results of the companies\u2019 two-year-old partnership, Bloomberg\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-14\/openai-apple-partnership-frays-setting-up-possible-legal-fight\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Thursday, citing unnamed 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has made only limited use of the firm\u2019s AI technology and has made the existing AI-driven features hard to find, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The AI startup had expected the partnership to deliver greater integration of its ChatGPT chatbot into Apple software, prime placement in the tech giant\u2019s Siri voice assistant, and more subscribers to the chatbot, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Apple nor OpenAI immediately replied to PYMNTS\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bloomberg report, the companies\u2019 partnership has been strained for other reasons as well. Apple has been concerned about OpenAI\u2019s user privacy protections, its effort to make its own devices, and its recruitment of engineers from Apple\u2019s hardware team.<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-14471536\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Apple announced its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/apple\/2024\/apple-unveils-apple-intelligence-suite-openai-partnership\/\">partnership<\/a>\u00a0with OpenAI in June 2024, saying ChatGPT would be integrated into iOS, macOS and iPadOS and, with the user\u2019s permission, would be ready to tag in when Siri tapped out. At the same time, Apple said it would be willing to work with other AI models down the line.<\/p>\n<p>The companies expanded their relationship a year later, in June, when Apple said its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2025\/apple-expands-openai-partnership-amid-rising-ai-pressures\/\">visual intelligence<\/a>\u00a0feature would be able to analyze images and text on an iPhone\u2019s screen, while users could also ask ChatGPT for more information about what\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0looking at.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI acquired a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2025\/openai-acquires-former-apple-design-chiefs-ai-device-startup\/\">device<\/a>\u00a0startup, Jony Ive\u2019s io, in May 2025 for\u00a0$6.4 billion.\u00a0OpenAI said at the time that a new generation of devices were in order for the AI era.<\/p>\n<p>In December, it was reported that dozens of Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/apple\/2025\/dozens-of-apple-employees-have-moved-to-openai-and-meta-in-recent-months\/\">employees<\/a>\u00a0had moved to OpenAI and other companies and that they included engineers and designers with experience in areas such as audio, watch\u00a0design\u00a0and robotics.<\/p>\n<p>On May 5, it was reported that Apple plans to offer third-party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/apple\/2026\/apple-plans-turn-devices-into-ai-platforms\/\">AI models<\/a>\u00a0alongside its own in-house models, allowing users of its software to choose the model they want to use for tasks such as generating and editing text and images.<\/p>\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>\r\n\twindow.pymntsAllowedArticleCount = 1;\r\n\twindow.pymntsPostID = 3735527;\r\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u00a0is preparing a potential future lawsuit against\u00a0Apple\u00a0due to dissatisfaction with the results of the companies\u2019 two-year-old partnership, Bloomberg\u00a0reported\u00a0Thursday, citing unnamed sources. 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