Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI Face Antitrust Scrutiny Over AI Dominance

ChatGPT, developed by the AI research lab OpenAI, is a chatbot model and a natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence technology. It engages in conversation by learning and understanding human language, interacts contextually, and even performs tasks such as drafting emails, video scripts, copywriting, translation, and coding. Early last year, ChatGPT garnered immense attention from netizens, becoming a hot topic and sparking an AI race in the industry, which contributed to NVIDIA‘s explosive growth in revenue and stock price.

According to Wccftech, recent reports indicate that U.S. federal regulators are turning their focus toward the AI industry, launching an antitrust investigation into the dominance of Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI in the sector. Industry insiders revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached this agreement over the past week.

It is understood that the DOJ will investigate whether NVIDIA’s AI business violates antitrust laws, while the FTC will examine the collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI. Both departments will conduct separate investigations to determine the involved parties’ conduct. For a rapidly growing market, enhanced scrutiny by regulators is not surprising; early intervention helps control the situation. Additionally, a public letter from former OpenAI employees expressed concerns about the AI market, highlighting a lack of adequate regulatory measures at this stage.

Industry experts suggest that the recent actions of these tech giants are strategies to circumvent antitrust laws and avoid formal investigations. Many believe the current momentum in the AI market resembles the internet boom of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with the influx of substantial funds making regulatory intervention inevitable.