The Federal Business Fee stated in a group of workers record issued Friday that there are attainable aggressive problems in partnerships between giant tech corporations and generative AI builders — particularly, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic.
“The FTC’s record sheds gentle on how partnerships through giant tech corporations can create lock-in, deprive start-ups of key AI inputs, and expose delicate knowledge that may undermine truthful pageant,” stated FTC Chair Lina Khan in a observation. (President-elect Donald Trump plans to interchange Khan as chair.)
The record makes a speciality of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s roles as cloud carrier suppliers operating with OpenAI and Anthropic; amongst different issues, it means that those partnerships may impact get right of entry to to computing assets and engineering ability, building up switching prices for firms operating with AI builders, and would possibly give cloud suppliers distinctive get right of entry to to delicate knowledge.
Microsoft’s deputy common suggest Rima Alaily informed Bloomberg that the corporate’s partnership with OpenAI has “enabled one of the vital a hit AI startups on this planet and spurred a wave of remarkable generation funding and innovation within the business.”
