Microsoft’s $13 Billion OpenAI Tie-Up Cleared by UK Watchdog

The CMA found that while Microsoft did acquire material influence over OpenAI in 2019, there has not been a change of control by Microsoft,

the CMA said in a statement

We welcome the CMA's conclusion, after careful and prudent consideration of the commercial realities, to close its investigation,

the spokesperson said

Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s commercial policy, and instead exerts a high level of material influence over that policy,

the CMA wrote in its decision