A transfer by the UK’s Competitors and Markets Authority (CMA) to formally launch a probe into Google’s buy of a $2 billion stake in Anthropic, “appears like a precautionary investigation throughout the board to me, primarily resulting from the truth that the CMA only in the near past permitted Amazon’s Anthropic funding and partnership,” an business analyst mentioned Thursday.
Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Information-Tech Analysis Group, mentioned, “on the floor, the take care of Google appears materially related in nature. Each Microsoft and Alphabet/Google at the moment are being scrutinized for his or her respective partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic by the CMA. The inquiry into Google could advantage a more in-depth look, nevertheless, in gentle of the DOJ’s current discovering towards the corporate’s anti-competitive practices within the areas of search and promoting.”
The CMA, in a assertion launched Thursday, indicated that it had obtained “ample data” to launch a preliminary investigation into the funding by Google, which was first introduced final 12 months and concerned an preliminary funding of $500 million, with the rest to be invested at a later date.
