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British antitrust regulators are in search of views on partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon with smaller generative AI mannequin makers.
The U.Ok.’s Competitors and Markets Authority on Wednesday stated that it was opening invites to remark for third events to offer their views on main AI partnerships between Microsoft and French AI agency Mistral and Amazon and U.S. startup Inflection, in addition to Microsoft’s hiring of former workers from Inflection AI.
The CMA is making an attempt to research whether or not the preparations between these corporations qualify as mergers.
The invitation to remark is the primary a part of an info gathering course of that comes forward of the launch of a proper Part 1 assessment by British regulators. An invite to remark doesn’t begin the formal Part 1 assessment, the CMA famous.
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