Technology correspondent
GiganticThe UK competition monitored its achievement in partnership between Microsoft and Maker of Chatgpt, Openai.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was looking into whether Microsoft’s relationship with what is the most well -known artificial intelligence company in the world (AI) has changed after the turmoil that witnessed its president, Sam, She launched and then reset it.
CMA concluded that although Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in Openai and has exclusive uses for some AI products, the partnership remains the same, so it is not subject to review under the rules of integration in the UK.
Foxglove, a digital law activist, said it has shown that CMA had been “spread”.
CMA opened the investigation in December 2023, after Microsoft pressed Openai to re -employ Mr. Altman, days after his dismissal.
“In light of the role of Microsoft, which is likely to be important in securing the reset of Sam Altman, CMA believed that there is a reasonable opportunity to make an investigation that Microsoft had increased Openai’s commercial policy,” The International Energy Agency said.
But on Wednesday, I concluded that Microsoft “has a high level of material impact” on Openai’s commercial policy without completely controlling it.
“Because this change in control did not happen, the partnership in its current form does not qualify for the review under the UK Integration Monitoring System,” the CEO CEO for the incorporation operations, Joel Bamford in Article on LinkedIn.
But he added: “The results of CMA should not be read on the judicial jurisdiction because the partnership that is granted a clean health bill on potential competition concerns; but the anti -integration system in the UK, of course, must work within the jurisdiction of Parliament.”
“Nothing to see here.”
Although critics say the decision is related to the changing political environment that CMA is now working.
The government has ordered the country’s organizers to propose ways to stimulate economic growth.
In January, the government removed Then the CMA chair, Marcus Bokkerink, because it was not satisfied with its response to that invitation.
He was replaced by a temporary basis by Doug Gore, the former UK, the former head of Amazon.
“CMA has sat in this decision for more than a year, but within just a few weeks of confirming the former Amazon president as president, he decided everything well all the time, nothing can be seen here,” said Rosa Curling, the director participating in Foxglove, the participating director of Foxglove.
“This is a bad sign that the major technology has successfully convinced the Prime Minister to cancel our competition organizer and allow Big Tech to dismantle the current generation of advanced technology-just as they did the last one,” she told the BBC.
When BBC News called CMA to respond to these comments, we referred to the Post Bamford LinkedIn, where he said: “We are not blind about the period of time that this investigation has taken … We know that the means reaches matters to business confidence and investment.”
The reason why this investigation took a long time is that Microsoft and Openai’s relationship changed during that time.
Less than a year ago, Sarah Cardil, CEO of CMA, said that the authority has “Real fears” About the “interconnected web” is a partnership of artificial intelligence among major technology companies.
But in A set of instructions To the CMA issued in February, the government said it should give priority “pro -growth and investment interventions.”
In the same month The UK stopped with the United States In the absence of an agreement on artificial intelligence at a summit in Paris.
US Vice President JD Vance reported that many organization of artificial intelligence can “kill a transformative industry just as it starts.”
“CMA will take a less interfering approach to protecting competition and integration control reviews, [but] “This does not mean that CMA will agree to each deal provided to it without question.
“The purpose of CMA is to help maintain competition in the markets to ensure consumers get a fair deal,” she said.
Participated in additional reports from Tom Singon and Chris Vallas.
