India, Aug. 14 -- Apple found itself in the middle of a controversy earlier this week when xAI and Tesla chief Elon Musk accused the technology company's App Store of favoring Sam Altman's OpenAI. Now, Apple has responded to the claims in a statement, as per a Fortune report. Apple has hit back at Musk's claims, stating that its App Store "is designed to be fair and free of bias."

The controversy began on Tuesday, when Musk accused Apple's App Store of using unfair means to promote OpenAI's ChatGPT ahead of rival Grok. He also threatened to take legal action against Apple, accusing it of "unequivocal antitrust violation."

The Grok chatbot and other X users were quick to point out that other apps like DeepSeek and Perplexity had reached ...