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, “feels like a precautionary investigation throughout the board to me, primarily resulting from the truth that the CMA only in the near past authorised Amazon’s Anthropic funding and partnership,” an business analyst stated Thursday.
Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Information-Tech Analysis Group, stated, “on the floor, the cope with Google appears materially comparable in nature. Each Microsoft and Alphabet/Google are actually being scrutinized for his or her respective partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic by the CMA. The inquiry into Google might benefit a better look, nevertheless, in mild of the DOJ’s current discovering towards the corporate’s anti-competitive practices within the areas of search and promoting.”
The CMA, in an announcement launched Thursday, indicated that it had obtained “enough info” to launch a preliminary investigation into the funding by Google, which was first introduced final yr and concerned an preliminary funding of $500 million, with the rest to be invested at a later date.