CMA: Microsoft/OpenAI partnership antitrust case

Decision

Regulator

CACompetition and Markets Authority

acted against

Against

MicrosoftOpenAI

The CMA concluded Microsoft had not acquired control over OpenAI's commercial policy, so the partnership fell outside UK merger rules.

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