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Regulators Look Into Microsoft and Amazon’s AI Partnerships
British antitrust regulators are scrutinizing partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon with smaller generative artificial intelligence firms.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has received feedback from third parties on the recent collaborations between Microsoft and French AI company Mistral and Amazon's investment in the US AI startup Anthropic.
Additionally, the CMA is examining Microsoft’s recruitment of former staff from another AI firm, Inflection AI.
Stakeholders are invited to submit their opinions by Thursday, May 9, as part of a preliminary information-gathering step ahead of a potential formal Phase 1 review.
Microsoft's involvement includes a significant €15 million investment in Mistral, established by Meta and Google’s DeepMind ex-employees.
This deal allows Mistral’s advanced language models to be integrated into Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.
This marks the second firm after OpenAI to utilize Azure for hosting large language models (LLMs).
Meanwhile, Amazon has invested $4 billion in Anthropic, known for its Claude large language model and related chatbot technology.
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