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Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.

In a US federal court filing on Friday, Google proposed a series of restrictions that for three years would bar the company from requiring its device manufacturer, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to their US users. The battle follows a ruling this past August by US district judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, who found that Google violated federal antitrust laws through deals it struck to be the default search provider on iOS and other software often in exchange for sharing ad revenue with the partners. The Justice Department and several state attorneys general involved in the case have wanted to ensure that Google isn’t able to transfer its dominance in old-school search to this emerging field.

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