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Competitors and Markets Authority checks out Microsoft/OpenAI after Altman mess

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The shooting and rehiring of OpenAI’s CEO, and the fallout, which might have seen Microsoft employ all its personnel, has the regulator alarmed

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  • Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Released: 11 Dec 2023 12:26

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has actually started taking a look at whether Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI is anti-competitive.

At the start of 2023, Microsoft injected $10bn of financing into OpenAI, the designer of ChatGPT. The financing and assistance, which supplied OpenAI with cloud hosting for its fundamental AI designs (FMs) on Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, has actually allowed Microsoft to establish a lead in big language designs (LLMs).

At the end of November, Microsoft appeared to have actually muddied the official contract with OpenAI after ousting the business’s CEO, Sam Altman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella then employed Altman and used to work with and match the existing incomes of most of OpenAI personnel who were dissatisfied by the situations around the departure of their manager. Within days, Altman was rehired by OpenAI and Microsoft stated it was devoted to supporting the business.

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