The Competition and Markets in the United Kingdom (CMA) has closed the investigation, which began a little more than a month ago, on a framework agreement between Google and the Anthropic. Therefore, the authority, antitrust is not going to launch an investigation into the in-depth (phase 2). The end result is similar to that of the two investigations, the other started at the end of April.
Google does not have any influence on the Anthropic
Based on the rumors at the end of October 2023 (no confirmations official), Google is going to have to invest 2 billion dollars in the other, the Anthropic after a 300 million usd in February, 2023. Therefore, the CMA and the Uk's, had communicated with them at the end of July, 2024, that the agreement could represent a barrier to competition, and therefore to violate the Act of Settlement (the Enterprises, 2002).
The investigation officer (phase 1) was launched at the end of October 2024. After the collection of information is necessary and the receipt of comments from interested parties, the authority, antitrust, determines that the agreement doesn't require a stage 2. The two companies remain in the background, a shopping has never occurred), and Google does not have any effect, the material on the Anthropic (p)moreover, it has. not the poses make decisions in their favor).
In addition, the income of the Anthropic are below the threshold of the legal (70 million pounds). Start kalifornian use the resources in the cloud to Google for the patterns, Claude, and the latter delivered by Google through a Vertex THAT.
The CMA had already closed their investigations into the agreements, the Amazon-Anthropic, Microsoft Inflection, HE and the Microsoft Mistral HIMSELF. However, the investigation on the Microsoft-OpenAI will remain open, but there has been no updates for more than ten (10) months.
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