By Mike Swift, Khushita Vasant and Amy Miller ( January 18, 2025, 01:05 GMT | Insight) -- A US Federal Trade Commission report detailing key concerns around more than $20 billion in partnerships between cloud service providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft with artificial intelligence developers OpenAI and Anthropic raise competition concerns about AI developers’ access to key technology inputs such as computing resources, switching costs if AI developers want to switch cloud services and whether the partnerships could give CSPs inside access to critical business and technical data that would be denied to competitors. Released on the last work day before new Republican leadership takes charge of the FTC, the agency's two Republican commissioners raised concerns.The multi-billion-dollar partnerships between cloud service providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft and AI developers OpenAI and Anthropic could create antitrust and data bottlenecks that raise competition, access-to-personal-data and other technology regulatory concerns, the US Federal Trade Commission said today in releasing a year-long study of the generative AI industry....
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