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Report: Google told FTC Microsoft’s OpenAI deal is killing AI competition

Microsoft gatekeeping OpenAI models saddles AI rivals with costs, report says.

As part of the FTC's investigation, the agency apparently asked Microsoft's biggest rivals if the exclusive OpenAI deal was "preventing them from competing in the burgeoning artificial intelligence market," multiple sources told The Information. To avoid any disruption to the deal, however, Microsoft could simply point to AI models sold by Google and Amazon as proof of "robust competition," The Information noted. According to The New York Times, Ferguson has "promised to ease up on the policing of powerful American companies—except for the biggest technology firms," which he thinks should continue facing "strong scrutiny."

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