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Late on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed sweeping proposals for remedies in Google ’s landmark antitrust case, where a federal judge ruled earlier this year that it has an illegal monopoly in the online search market.
Anthropic is the maker of Claude, a language model that can generate answers to questions, similar to Google’s own Gemini model, which was integrated into Google’s search engine earlier this year. While the startup doesn’t pitch Claude as a search product, those kinds of chatbots are widely seen as a threat to Google search. Other startups, like Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity, are more forthright about competing with Google.
“The old companies are trying to seize control of the new technology and insulate themselves against displacement,” he toldBut it’s also out of left field, as AI wasn’t a major topic in the case. “It seems so far beyond anything that was in the original case that I can’t take it seriously,” said George Hay, an antitrust professor at Cornell Law School.
It’s also unclear if the divestment proposals would apply to Google parent Alphabet’s two venture firms — GV and CapitalG — since the DOJ case focused squarely on Google and not the other subsidiaries of its parent. GV referred questions to Google, which declined to comment. CapitalG didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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