British Watchdog is Looking at Collaboration Between Tech Companies in AI
The British competition authority CMA is critical of the artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships between Microsoft and the French start-up Mistral and between Amazon and the American start-up Anthropic.
The regulator had not yet concluded whether the partnerships fall within British merger rules.
Earlier this year, it was announced that the European Commission was examining whether cooperation between Mistral and Microsoft was possible. Some fear that this could make Microsoft too powerful in artificial intelligence. Microsoft announced it would provide all necessary information to complete the British investigation quickly.
Amazon called it “unprecedented” that the British watchdog is investigating the collaboration with Anthropic, as it concerns “a limited investment, in which Amazon will not have a role as director or observer”. Amazon has already invested a total of four billion dollars in Anthropic.