Description: OpenAI’s production executive, Nick Turley, testified in an antitrust probe launched against Google’s parent company Alphabet regarding anti-competitive practices on the tech market. The probe revolved around Google’s monopolization of the search engine market, and not allowing access to competitor companies to their digital infrastructure as well as the ownership over advertising rights. Turley further testified before a Washington court that Google has stifled all and any attempts made by OpenAI towards a more collaborative and transparent usage of search engines and chatbot products such as Gemini AI and ChatGPT while making exclusive deals with companies such as Samsung to further put Google’s products on the digital market pedestal.
Impact: Collusions of ambitions between large tech companies emphasize the importance of highly developed technology products and their usage in several modern industries. The latest clash between Google and OpenAI underscores erratic behavior from large tech companies in volatile market times where stability of investment and practicing natural competitiveness are a luxury. Google’s monopoly over information ownership would further be challenged by several other companies and start – ups in the future as the company would face future challenges in maintaining its market dominance. The ongoing trade war between the US and China would put additional pressure on big tech companies in search for crude resources, domestic market stability and struggle for dominance.