Competition Authority, Competition and Market Authority (CMA), explain On Wednesday, Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI was not eligible to investigate under the merger provisions of the UK Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anti-competitive law law.
Overall, all available evidence is taken into account […] CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s business policy, but has had a high material impact on the policy,” CMA Written in the decision. “In other words, there is no change in the control, resulting in the relevant merger situation.”
The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership in December 2023. This technology giant is Openai’s top investor, Nearly $14 billion Enter AI startup. Microsoft also packages many of OpenAI’s technologies in a management product called Azure OpenAi Services, and has worked closely with OpenAi to develop products such as Microsoft’s Copilot Chatbot and Github Copilot AI Coding Assistant.
