Microsoft Mistral partnership avoids merger probe by UK regulators

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Mistral partnership avoids merger probe by *** regulators

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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority cleared

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’s artificial intelligence partnership with Mistral of regulatory concerns after previously inviting views on whether the arrangement qualified as a merger.

The CMA said in a brief statement Friday that the deal “does not qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002.”

CNBC has reached out to

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and Mistral.

Mistral, a French AI firm founded in 2023, won a 15 million euro, or $16 million, investment from

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earlier this year.

Under the terms of the deal, the U.S. tech giant receives a ********* stake in Mistral, while the French company adds its large language models to the U.S. tech giant’s Azure cloud computing platform.

In April, the CMA began seeking views from interested parties on partnerships agreed by U.S. tech giants with smaller AI firms to determine whether arrangements between the companies qualify as mergers.

As part of that effort, the CMA looked into the ********* investment deals agreed by

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and Mistral, as well as into whether

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’s hiring of certain former employees from AI startup Inflection constitutes a merger. The watchdog separately invited comment on the arrangements between

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and Anthropic.

Now, the regulator says it is no longer looking into

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’s investment in Mistral. It has given no update on its inquiries into the

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-Inflection deal and into

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’s hiring of employees from Inflection.

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previously denied that its deals with OpenAI and Mistral plus the hiring of employees from Inflection constituted mergers.

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has also said that its partnership with Anthropic represents a limited corporate investment, not a merger.

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