recent,AmazonStartups with artificial intelligence Anthropic The collaboration betweenU.K.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic will affect market competition. The CMA said it had enough information to believe that the partnership could have an adverse impact on the UK market, so it decided to conduct an in-depth investigation.
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Amazon expressed disappointment and believed that the investigation was unnecessary. An Amazon spokesperson mentioned: "Our cooperation does not raise competition concerns and does not meet the CMA's own review standards." Since April, the CMA has been collecting public opinions on this cooperation, and the deadline is May 9. After announcing the formal investigation this week, the CMA plans to evaluate the impact of this cooperation on the market in the next few weeks, and the final decision will be made on October 4 whether to enter a more in-depth second phase of the investigation.
In the cooperation between Amazon and Anthropic, Anthropic uses Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) for mission-critical work and security research, while building new AI basic models. As early as March, Amazon announced a $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, and the cumulative investment has reached nearly $4 billion. Amazon believes that such an investment can help Anthropic expand its choices and competition in the AI market.
In response to the CMA's investigation, Anthropic also issued a statement, firmly denying any wrongdoing. Anthropic stressed that Amazon does not have a seat on its board of directors or observer rights, indicating that they are an independent company. Anthropic also stated that investment relationships and partnerships will not affect their corporate governance independence or freedom to cooperate with other companies.
In addition, the CMA recently launched a similar investigation into Google and Anthropic. Google established a partnership with Anthropic last year, and Google's AI processor was used by Anthropic in its large language model (LLM) development. This shows that Amazon and Google are in fierce competition in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc.