The FTC published a report on the partnerships between:
- Microsoft-OpenAI
- Amazon-Anthropic
- Google-Anthropic
While the report does not disclose non-public information, the conclusions drawn by the report are based on non-public information collected through a specific type of antitrust data gathering study available to the government.
I have not read the report and cannot vouch for its information. But, I thought this information will quickly become out-of-date. And I want to share it immediately.
From the executive summary:
This report is aimed at helping the agency, the public, and policymakers
deepen their understanding of the corporate partnerships formed between the
generative AI developers and CSPs included in this study. This report
summarizes the findings from the 6(b) study, providing timely insight to the
general public that is not otherwise available, including through previous
reporting on the partnerships. It also equips the agency to better evaluate
the attributes and potential implications of partnerships involving large
technology companies and the impact they may have on hundreds of millions of
consumers, countless businesses, and huge segments of the economy now, and
not years after the fact. Even in places where public reporting had already
described certain partnership features, non-public information helped to
enrich staff’s—and therefore this report’s—analysis of the partnerships.