Google holds a minority stake worth billions of dollars in Anthropic. Losing the investment would hand a competitive advantage to OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, Anthropic wrote to the court in February.
The DOJ first made a draft recommendation in November. Prosecutors then continued to seek evidence from Google competitors and AI companies. The evidence showed a risk that banning Google from AI investments “could cause unintended consequences in the evolving AI space,” prosecutors said in the final proposal on Friday.
They asked that Google be required to give prior notice to the government about future investments in generative AI.