Google Asks FTC To Kill Microsoft's Exclusive Cloud Deal with OpenAI

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers, according to a person who has been directly involved in the effort. The conversation took place after the Federal Trade Commission, one of the primary federal antitrust enforcement agencies, asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation, this person said.

Firms that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, including Google and Amazon, want to host OpenAI's artificial intelligence themselves so their cloud customers don't need to also tap Microsoft servers to get access to the startup's technology, this person said.

Bug in the slash/. commenting system.

[Eunomion]

The whole comment box just doesn't appear for day on ends. Different on different hardware.

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[Narcocide]

If you're using the same OS version and the same version of the same browser on both machines but form fields are not rendering on one of them, then the most likely culprit is actually the video card driver.

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[Fly Swatter]

This isn't the 90s, is that type of problem still a thing? My first thought is that the OP ha an extension on their browser with a different setting, like in say an adblocker that was adjusted during the html-load.com fiasco a week back.

meme

[martin-boundary]

Monopolists don't let monopolists monopolize....

Oh, I give up.

Re: meme

[commodore73]

Free traders donâ(TM)t free trade for free?

Re: meme

[commodore73]

Fix your eyes âcause I canâ(TM)t fix my thumbs.

Trust Google, it knows a monopoly when it sees one

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

It takes one to know one.

stealing?

[etash]

Wouldn't that make it easier for google to steal openai's models weights and exact model architecture?

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[Rosco P. Coltrane]

It's not called "stealing" anymore, it's called "monetizing other people's data".

There would be irony if Google was pilfering OpenAI's trade secrets, while OpenAI's AI is busy pilfering everybody else's data.

Google Pot Calling the Microsoft Kettle Black?

[theodp]

"Firms that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, including Google and Amazon, want to host OpenAI's artificial intelligence themselves so their cloud customers don't need to also tap Microsoft servers to get access to the startup's technology, this person said."
 
Remind me again: How does Google let one host Google Search, Gmail, and Docs on Azure and AWS servers?

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[McLoud]

"Firms that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, including Google and Amazon, want to host OpenAI's artificial intelligence themselves so their cloud customers don't need to also tap Microsoft servers to get access to the startup's technology, this person said."

Remind me again: How does Google let one host Google Search, Gmail, and Docs on Azure and AWS servers?

And while at it, let me run PowerBI on premises o the same price tag Azure licenses it.. oh, wait

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[sweeperq]

Oh, and where is its own Gemini AI hosted as well?