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The Center for Data Innovation submitted comments to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s principal market competition regulator, on the Microsoft-Mistral AI partnership. These comments make three points. First, the Microsoft-Mistral AI partnership does not meet the criteria set for a “relevant merger situation” as set forth in the Enterprise Act 2002, and thus the CMA should not intervene. Second, even if the CMA believes that the partnership reaches the threshold to create a relevant merger situation, the partnership does not have a negative impact on competition. Third, any potentially negative impacts on competition would be justified by the pro-competitive impact of this partnership.
