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The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) order ina staff reportissued Friday that there are possible competitive issues in partnership between Big Tech companies and generative AI developer — specifically , Microsoft ’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon ’s and Alphabet / Google ’s partnership with Anthropic .
“ The FTC ’s report sheds light on how partnership by big tech house can create lock - in , deprive start - ups of cardinal AI inputs , and reveal sensible information that can subvert fair contest , ” enounce FTC hot seat Lina Khan ina statement.(President - elect Donald Trumpplans to supersede Khan as hot seat . )
The account focalise on the roles of Microsoft , Amazon , and Google as cloud service provider forge with OpenAI and Anthropic ; among other things , it suggests that these partnerships could affect access to cipher resources and engineering natural endowment , increase switching cost for companies working with AI developer , and might give cloud provider unequaled access to sensitive information .
Microsoft ’s deputy general counsel Rima Alailytold Bloombergthat the company ’s partnership with OpenAI has “ enable one of the most successful AI startups in the world and spur a wafture of unprecedented applied science investment funds and origination in the industry . ”
