Microsoft has received a clean bill of health following a probe into its investment in OpenAI in 2023. The firm invested $13 billion which triggered investigations from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

After months of scrutiny, Microsoft’s $13bn (£11bn) partnership with OpenAI has been cleared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The antitrust watchdog ruled that Microsoft‘s investment did not meet the threshold for a full-scale merger investigation,

Britain on Wednesday ended its investigation into Microsoft’s collaboration with OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, claiming that the software behemoth lacked sufficient control over the AI startup to justify a follow-up.