The Federal Trade Commission mentioned in a employees report issued Friday that there are potential aggressive points in partnerships between huge tech firms and generative AI builders — particularly, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic.
“The FTC’s report sheds gentle on how partnerships by huge tech companies can create lock-in, deprive start-ups of key AI inputs, and reveal delicate data that may undermine honest competitors,” mentioned FTC Chair Lina Khan in an announcement. (President-elect Donald Trump plans to switch Khan as chair.)
The report focuses on Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s roles as cloud service suppliers working with OpenAI and Anthropic; amongst different issues, it means that these partnerships may have an effect on entry to computing sources and engineering expertise, improve switching prices for firms working with AI builders, and may give cloud suppliers distinctive entry to delicate data.
Microsoft’s deputy normal counsel Rima Alaily advised Bloomberg that the corporate’s partnership with OpenAI has “enabled one of the crucial profitable AI startups on the planet and spurred a wave of unprecedented know-how funding and innovation within the trade.”
