US antitrust authorities have decided to investigate Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI for their roles in antitrust violations. Artificial intelligence boomThis is according to a person familiar with the pending litigation.
The Justice Department will open an investigation into chipmaker Nvidia, while the Federal Trade Commission will scrutinize close business partners Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, according to two people who were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigations and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Nvidia and OpenAI declined to comment Thursday, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The New York Times first reported the agreement between the two agencies' antitrust regulators on Thursday.
President Joe Biden Calling for greater oversight Federal authorities have said for more than a year that they are policing the business practices of big tech companies, monitoring what they see as monopolistic behavior in the rapidly advancing industry of chatbots and other generative AI products that can generate human-like text, images and voice.
FTC Chair Lina Khan said: I said in January The agency will scrutinize deals that “enable a dominant firm to exercise undue influence or gain privileged access in a way that undermines fair competition.”
At the time, the FTC announced it was opening an investigation into major artificial intelligence startups, including OpenAI and Anthropic, and their relationships with cloud computing providers, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who are investing billions of dollars in them.
Microsoft and OpenAI have a particularly close relationship, with the small San Francisco company Training a generative AI system Like ChatGPT.
The entire AI industry also relies heavily on Nvidia's specialized semiconductors to power AI applications. Demand for the company's AI chips is Nvidia shares surgeOn Wednesday, its market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion, making it one of the most valuable companies in the S&P 500.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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