FILE PHOTO: Andreas Mundt, president of Germany's Federal Cartel Office poses for photographers following a news conference in which the anti-trust watchdog presented its findings of the investigation into Facebook's data collection practices in Bonn, Germany, February 7, 2019.
Alphabet's Google and Microsoft have recently become rivals in artificial intelligence , with the latter investing heavily in OpenAI and the former building the Bard AI chatbot among other investments. "For us as a competition authority, it is crucial that this new technology does not further strengthen the dominance of the large corporations," Mundt told Reuters in an interview on Friday.