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comments by Andreas Mundt underscore regulatory concerns that
tech giants, with their vast troves of user data, may get a
competitive edge in the new technology used in smart homes, web
search, online advertising, cars and many other products and
services.
Alphabet's Google and Microsoft have recently become rivals in
artificial intelligence (AI), with the latter investing heavily
in OpenAI and the former building the Bard AI chatbot among
other investments.
The surge in AI popularity has prompted governments around the
world to try to impose rules on the use of the technology, with
the European Union in a race to adopt its landmark AI rules by
the end of the year.
"For us as a competition authority, it is crucial that this new
technology does not further strengthen the dominance of the
large corporations," Mundt told Reuters in an interview on
Friday.
"The danger is very great because you need two things above all
for AI, powerful servers and vast amounts of data. Big internet
corporations have both," he said.
Mundt said the field was still open to competition but
regulators need to ensure it remains so.
"However, models from smaller providers could also become so
popular that they develop in the direction of a kind of
operating system, a new platform," he said.
"Both developments are possible, and as an authority we have to
be careful that any competitive potential is not buried from the
outset."
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Mark Potter)
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