Any investigations would focus on whether the companies have used their dominant positions in the AI industry to harm competition.
Microsoft, Inflection and Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment; Nvidia and OpenAI declined to comment.
For years, technology critics and regulators have worried that major tech companies may be monopolizing entire sectors of the economy.
One way for tech giants to wield anticompetitive influence in the AI sector, critics say, is through exclusive partnerships with AI startups.
Those types of deals, including Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, is the subject of an ongoing study by the FTC announced in January.
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