A Framework for Assessing the Competitiveness of AI Partnerships

The year 2024 marked a pivotal moment as antitrust agencies accelerated their efforts in generative AI (see our database). AI partnerships have drawn significant attention in the space, with the CMA, DOJ, European Commission, and other agencies launching investigations and issuing their first decisions. These agencies have been addressing AI partnerships on a case-by-case basis—a pragmatic approach for now. But legal certainty is critical in such a rapidly evolving ecosystem. This is why Sandy Pentland and I developed a framework for evaluating these partnerships. We present it in our now-published paper Competition between AI foundation models: dynamics and policy recommendations (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024).