Partner Wyatt Fore was recently quoted by Law.com’s Corporate Counsel about the implications of the newly announced deal to integrate Google Gemini’s foundational models into Apple’s Intelligence products, including Siri.
“Obviously, this agreement should raise alarm bells at the government as well as private parties who are enforcing the antitrust laws,” said J. Wyatt Fore, a partner at Shinder Cantor Lerner in Washington, D.C.
“The government is going to be very interested in knowing more about the agreement, because, essentially, Google is using the same playbook that it did in search,” Fore said.
However, he also noted that differing structures of the Search and AI markets will likely alter the antitrust analysis:
Shinder Cantor Lerner’s Fore said one difference between Google and Apple’s search partnership and their AI partnership is that Google does not yet command monopoly power in AI.
“In the Google search case, the agreement with Apple was so anticompetitive because it protected Google’s monopoly, and that’s what made it illegal. Here, it’s harder to raise that argument right now, at this point in time, because it doesn’t appear that Google has monopoly power in this sort of product market,” Fore said.
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