After the Amazon, and Microsoft, and is up to Google to end up under the control of the Authority, the Competition and the Market (CMA), of the United Kingdom. The authority, antitrust and wants to verify whether the agreement between the company and the Mountain View and the Anthropic can be a barrier to competition, and as a result of a breach of the law on sales (such Enterprises, 2002). At the moment, it has just launched the phase preceding it, but cannot initiate an investigation.
Investing billions of dollars to the Google
Anthropic established in the year 2021 by the brothers Dario and Daniela Amodei, it develops a model of the well known HE-generating Claude. Google is going to have to invest (there is no official confirmation) $ 300 million in the startup in February, 2023. $ 500 million other will be received at the end of October 2023, and 1.5 billion of the others are expected in the next few months.
The CMA wants to investigate whether these investments have been made to circumvent the controls in the making. All interested parties may submit comments on this issue until the 13th of August. Based on the responses, and documentation of the collection, the CMA will decide whether or not to launch an investigation into the officer.
A spokesperson for the Anthropic said:
We aim to work with the CMA and will provide them with a comprehensive view of investments, and Google, and collaboration with our business. We are a company independent of any of the partnerships with our strategic relations with the banks, does not diminish the independence of the government, independent of corporate or our freedom to cooperate with others. The independence of the Anthropic it is an attribute of the crucial, integral as well as to our mission to benefit the public, as well as to serve our customers wherever and however they prefer to take to Claude.
A spokesman for Google said:
Google is committed to building the ecosystem to be more open, and the space for IT in the world. Anthropic is a free to use service provider for many kinds of software, and we do not claim the right to the exclusive technology.
A similar procedure was initiated by the CMA at the end of April to discuss the arrangements, the Amazon-Anthropic, Microsoft Inflection, HE and the Microsoft Mistral HIMSELF. For it is not going to launch any investigation, while the investigations of the past are listed below. The CMA was also asked to comment on the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, but there are no updates on this topic.
Investigations of the agreements between the business, the initial for Big Tech-and HE's going to start, also in the United States. The European commission, in lieu of this, you can launch an investigation against Microsoft and OpenAI, for a violation of the law, antitrust, rather than on sales.
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