Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development
Four of the industry’s leading AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI (referred to in the filing as SpaceXAI), and Google, are facing a proposed federal class action accusing them of illegally coordinating to slow the pace of AI model improvement, a move the plaintiffs say violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act.