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Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral by nerdponx on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:03AM (#39538030)
You would have an anti-trust problem if somebody went out and bought all of the promising AI startups.

So at what point in their buying spree do you cut them off? Do you wait until they've bought 90% of AI startups? 50%? Does it matter if there are 4 AI startups or 40?

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Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral by guhidalg on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:47AM (#39538607)
It starts to matter when the broad public is adversely affected by the lack of AI diversity. I don’t think we’re there yet, let them buy.
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Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral by nerdponx on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:44AM (#39540457)
The problem here is that, if you can see the adverse effects on the public, you're too late. So you need to anticipate them. That's not an easy thing to do.
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Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral by UncleEntity on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @01:14PM (#39541709)
So, pre-crime?

It's not illegal to be a monopoly[0] (at least in the US) but abusing your monopoly is what gets you in trouble. Copyright and patents are examples of gov't granted monopolies.

[0] Fully conceding the fact that MS is a convicted monopolist and has to play by different rules than everyone else.

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Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral by DANmode on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:34AM (#39540287)
From my perspective, the only name and products people (who are not here) know are ChatGPT/OpenAI API based.

Do you have a different experience?

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