“Amazon holds no board seat nor decision-making power at Anthropic, and Anthropic is free to work with any other provider (and indeed has multiple partners),” the spokesperson said, echoing comments from an Anthropic spokesperson.
The competition authority in Britain announced on Thursday that it has launched an inquiry into whether Amazon’s alliance with AI firm Anthropic created competition, following the launch of a similar investigation into Alphabet’s collaboration with the startup.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that until October 4 it has to make the so-called Phase 1 judgment, after which it must either clear the collaboration with an AI focus of any competition concerns or refer it for a more thorough investigation.
“Amazon’s collaboration with Anthropic does not raise any competition concerns or meet the CMA’s own threshold for review,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
“Amazon holds no board seat nor decision-making power at Anthropic, and Anthropic is free to work with any other provider (and indeed has multiple partners),” the spokesperson said, echoing comments from an Anthropic spokesperson.
“Our strategic partnerships and investor relationships do not diminish our corporate governance independence or our freedom to partner with others,” the Anthropic spokesperson said.
“We intend to cooperate with the CMA and provide them with a comprehensive understanding of Amazon’s investment and our commercial collaboration.”
Investigating Google parent Alphabet’s relationship with Anthropic—a startup co-founded by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei and former OpenAI executives—was something the CMA started looking into late in July.
Global antitrust authorities are becoming more and more alarmed by the numerous agreements made between smaller sector startups and major tech corporations.
In a joint statement issued in July, regulators from the US, EU, and UK pledged to cooperate to protect fair competition in the sector.
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