Sources say the U.S. FTC has asked Amazon to provide details of its deal with AI startup Adept

This website reported on July 17 that according to Reuters and Bloomberg reports, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked Amazon to provide more details about its deal with Adept, a startup in the field of enterprise AI applications. Adept was founded in 2022 by former OpenAI VP of Engineering David Luan and others, and was ranked second on Forbes' 2023 AI 50 list.

▲ Screenshot of Adept official website Adept announced on June 28 that its former CEO David Luan and some employees joined Amazon’s AGI autonomy team; Amazon also obtained Adept’s agent technology, multi-modal models and data sets of use authorization.
In other words, Amazon’s agreement with Adept is similar to Microsoft’s deal with Inflection AI, which is currently under investigation by the US FTC and the UK CMA.
Critics believe that large technology companies are using stock holdings, personnel hiring and other means to "soft merge" smaller AI companies, substantially reducing competition in the AI ​​market without triggering regulatory regulations.
Two US media said that the FTC’s review of the Amazon-Adept transaction is still in its preliminary stages and may not necessarily lead to a full investigation or enforcement action.
According to this site’s report on the 11th of this month, the FTC officially announced an investigation into the investment partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI.

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