UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

Britain's competition regulator is embarking on a full blown deep dive into Amazon's multi-billion dollar investments in Anthropic to ascertain if the exchange equates to a stealthy "merger situation." money Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each READ MORE The Competition and Markets Authority invited …

[Falmari]

Anthropic is free to work with any other provider

Bollocks are they. If they did say goodbye to anymore billion dollar investments from Amazon so not free the cost would be billions.

Anthropic is free to work with any other provider and I am free to shoot myself in the head. Neither is going to bloody happen.

Anthropic is free to work with any other provider except Amazon who they must work with . They must purchase cloud resources on AWS and they must host their models on Amazon Bedrock. So not that free.

[Drakon]

Re: Anthropic is free to work with any other provider

You can run Anthropic models on GCP already

[Pascal Monett]

"Amazon holds no board seat nor decision-making power at Anthropic"

It doesn't need to, it holds the resources.

Amazon has Anthropic by the balls. If Amazon cuts the servers, Anthropic is dead.

Follow the money.

[Anonymous Coward]

Let scientists do science

CMA is wasting everyone's precious R&D time on litigation. AI is of strategic importance to the West, and who is better fit to assist the research than big tech known for great execution and talents.

It is also recognized that the AI efforts presently cost much more money than they generate. Why CMA is not focusing on well known money-generating monopolistic practices instead? Even such basic things as Internet tariffs in UK.

[Will Godfrey]

Re: Let scientists do science

Did you forget the 'sarc'