Microsoft Sued Over Secret Deal with OpenAI
Microsoft is facing a class action lawsuit in the USA over its multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI.
Consumers accuse the tech giant of secretly inflating the cost of generative services through an allegedly unlawful market-sharing deal.
The proposed lawsuit claims Microsoft used its exclusive cloud computing agreement with OpenAI to restrict access to the resources needed to operate large language models.
Microsoft's deep financial and infrastructural entanglement with OpenAI - culminating in more than $13 billion in investments since 2019 - gave it effective control over the startup's compute supply.
Author's summary: Microsoft faces lawsuit over OpenAI deal.
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