Google’s partnership with GenAI startup Anthropic is raising eyebrows in the UK as the trend of big tech giants backing young AI companies continues. The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it’s collecting information on whether the partnership qualifies as a merger and negatively impacts UK competition. The regulator is also looking into Amazon’s $4bn investment in Anthropic, as well as Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI.
Google’s partnership with GenAI startup Anthropic is raising eyebrows in the UK as the trend of big tech giants backing young AI companies continues. The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it’s collecting information on whether the partnership qualifies as a merger and negatively impacts UK competition. The regulator is also looking into Amazon’s $4bn investment in Anthropic, as well as Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI.