Microsoft, Google and Amazon together with different tech corporations have been getting artistic in how they’re poaching expertise from prime synthetic intelligence startups.
Earlier this month, Google signed an uncommon deal with Character.ai to rent away its distinguished founder and greater than one-fifth of its workforce whereas additionally licensing its expertise. It regarded like an acquisition, however the deal was structured in order that it wasn’t. Google wasn’t the primary to take this strategy.
Microsoft laid the groundwork in its take care of Inflection, carefully adopted by Amazon’s fake acquisition of Adept.
It is a playbook that skirts regulators and their crackdown on Large Tech dominance, gives an exit for AI startups struggling to become profitable and permits megacaps to select up the expertise wanted within the AI arms race.
However whereas tech giants would possibly assume they’re outsmarting antitrust enforcers, they might be taking part in with fireplace.
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