Microsoft highlights Google's advantage over rivals in generative AI

Unit of Alphabet Microsoft has informed EU antitrust investigators that Google has a competitive advantage in generative artificial intelligence because of its vast data set and AI-optimized hardware, highlighting the competition between the two tech titans.

Microsoft's remarks were in response to a call for opinions on the degree of competition in generative AI that was issued by the European Commission in January.

Concerns over false information and fake news have been raised by the rising popularity of generative AI, which can produce human-like replies to textual instructions and is best demonstrated by Google's chatbot Gemini and Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT.

It stated that Google will have a competitive edge going forward because of its self-supply AI chips and the massive quantities of private data it uses to train its big language model Gemini from YouTube and Google Search Index.

"With an estimated 14 billion videos, YouTube offers an unmatched selection of video material. Other AI developers cannot access such material, according to Microsoft, but Google does.

It said that AI-driven voice assistants, like Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant, benefit both businesses.

Microsoft has attempted to allay regulatory concerns about such collaborations between Big Tech and startups, with its more than $10 billion investment in OpenAI currently under investigation by EU antitrust authorities.

(Source: investing.com, reuters.com)