2024-07-23 06:54:21
The British competition regulator announced yesterday that it has opened a formal investigation into the hiring by Microsoft from some former employees of Inflection AI and its association with this leading company in Artificial intelligence.
He CMA (Competition and Markets Authority in the United Kingdom), a commission of the European Union (EU) and the American regulator (FTC), have been intensifying their surveillance of the market for several months. generative artificial intelligence (IA).
The CMA has been examining the file since April and stated that it “has sufficient information on the hiring by Microsoft Corporation of certain former employees of Inflection AI”, with associated agreements that “allow an investigation to be opened”.
This initial investigation will determine whether a more in-depth investigation is necessary.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMindthe AI company acquired by Google, announced in March that he was stepping down from his role as CEO of Inflection AI.
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2024-07-23 06:54:21