Microsoft’s $13 billion (about Rs 1124,85 billion) investment in Openai has raised concerns that the technology giant can put it in the cloud. Advantages expand to the nascent artificial intelligence market.
The committee said the deals between Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon.com and Google’s partnership with AI Company Anthropic increase the risk that AI developers can be “completely acquired” by AI developers in the future.
More than two years since Chatgpt’s craze surrounding the generation of AI, leading AI startups have turned to large tech companies to support the development of expensive and compute-intensive technologies. But in its report, the FTC has raised concerns that cloud giants are asking them to invest in these startups to use them in their products and services. The FTC also said the risk of coveted AI talent is consolidated around these large companies and the possibility of access to favorable data related to chip development, model training and data center construction.
“The FTC’s report sheds light on how partnerships among large tech companies create lockdowns, stripping startups of critical AI inputs, and revealing sensitive information that could undermine fair competition,” FTC Chairman Lina Khan said in a statement.
The report also noted that at least one large tech company (not saying which) gained access to “confidential and potentially sensitive financial performance information” as part of a deal with one of the AI startups, receiving weekly revenues Reports about customer trends and updates.
Furthermore, it notes that at least one protocol provides that a large tech company can access output from AI-launched models, for example, a chatbot spits out text or other information in response to user prompts. Tech companies plan to use this information, often called “synthetic data” to train their own AI models.
Google, Amazon and Anthropic declined to comment. Openai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has made one of the world’s most successful AI startups, spurring unprecedented technological investment and innovation in the industry, creating thousands of new startups in the United States and around the world. ”, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel.
Market Research
The FTC has the right to open up market research to learn more about industry trends. These findings can be used to inform future actions. It is unclear how the agency’s new leader under the Trump administration will handle the report.
The FTC opened its survey last year, highlighting the billion-dollar investments of global cloud service giants in AI startups. These include large-scale technology investments from OpenAI and Anthropic from a company founded by former OpenAI employees.
The FTC is conducting an investigation under its so-called 6(b) authorization, which allows it to issue subpoenas for market research. The agency usually issues reports on its findings after analyzing the company’s information, although the process can take years to complete.
No company informs the U.S. antitrust agency in advance due to its structure.
The partnership between technology and AI could lead to major tech companies with “exclusive rights” over their AI Partners tools, and it could prevent AI companies from increasing the “conversion costs for AI developer partners” Cooperate with several technology companies. transparent
Skilled talent
The report also highlights the possible concerns that partnerships may exist in the engineer market. “One open question is whether partnerships can consolidate access to this talent pool through a limited number of companies,” the report said. “The skills required to develop and deploy large-scale generated AI models are relatively few and are in large-scale,” the report said. It can be difficult to obtain outside of AI developers or large-scale work.”
The agency believes that some cloud giants’ investment in these AI companies has returned to benefit their businesses. This is because most investment forms come in the form of credit, used to pay for the cloud computing power of AI company benefactors, or include regulations that AI companies will spend on these cloud services.
For example, Microsoft has mostly passed Microsoft’s Azure Cloud points toward Openai’s wide range. The report says the practice is called “circulating spending,” which helps keep Microsoft, Amazon and Google from potential losses.
Since 2023, the agency has been investigating whether OpenAI has violated its popular Chatgpt chatbots for consumer protection laws. In November, the FTC also conducted an extensive antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including its investment in artificial intelligence and other topics.
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