Microsoft (MS) protested that its partnership with OpenAI, which is being investigated by the European Union (EU), was not intended to monopolize the market, but was inevitable to compete with Google. The background to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the day before was revealed: “Originally, Google must have been first in AI.”
Reuters reported on the 14th (local time) that Microsoft submitted documents to the effect that its partnership with OpenAI will help AI competition in response to an inquiry from the European Commission.
In response to this, Microsoft said, “Currently, just one company, Google, has a vertical structure that ensures strength and independence in all AI layers, from its own chips to mobile app stores,” and added, “Other corporations are competing with Google.” “Now we have no selection but to hitch forces,” he emphasized.
He also identified that Google's self-produced AI chip will probably be the idea for being ahead of other AI corporations for years to return, and that it could actually learn and improve its own model, comparable to Gemini, with large-scale proprietary datasets comparable to Google search data and YouTube. . “There are roughly 14 billion videos on YouTube, which other AI developers cannot access,” Microsoft said.
Google's voice assistant, 'Assistant', was also identified. “Google and Apple with Siri are well-positioned to advance voice assistants and grow to be leaders in generative AI, something recent entrants and competitors cannot do,” he said.
The aim of this response is consistent with CEO Nadella's podcast remarks reported yesterday. CEO Nadella said, “Originally, Google must have won the AI competition. Google is an organization that has all the things. We were capable of compete with Google through our partnership with OpenAI.”
Google counterattacked Microsoft.
A Google spokesperson said: “We wish the EU to take a better have a look at corporations that don’t provide openness to Google Cloud or have a protracted history of locking out users and people who adopt the identical approach to AI services.”
It is a remark that criticizes Microsoft's practice of charging data transfer fees to stop cloud users from moving to other locations and the past monopoly problems attributable to Windows.
EU regulators have launched a preliminary investigation to find out whether the partnership between Microsoft and Open AI ought to be viewed as a merger and whether the connection between the 2 corporations violates EU merger regulations.
In america, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is conducting the identical investigation. In america, Google and Amazon are also under the identical investigation for investing large amounts of cash in Antropic.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com