In a response to EU’s antitrust consultation, Microsoft shared that Google, a unit of Alphabet, has a strong position in the generative artificial intelligence in large part due to its data set size and AI-optimized hardware.

Microsoft’s response represents its opinion on the competition around generative AI that was asked by the European Commission in January.

Both, Google’s chatbot Gemini and Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT have best demonstrated their capabilities of producing human-like responses to written instructions amid heightened concerns over false information and fake news from the rising popularity of generative AI.

Microsoft views that Google is likely to have a better advantage thanks to its self-supply AI semiconductors and the massive quantities of proprietary data that it uses to train its large language model Gemini from YouTube and Google Search Index in the long run.

"YouTube provides an unparalleled set of video content; it hosts an estimated 14 billion videos. Google has access to such content; but other AI developers do not," Microsoft said.

"They are well positioned to evolve and leverage their respective existing voice assistants into leadership positions in generative AI. New entrants and competitors of Google and Apple will not enjoy the same advantages," Microsoft said.

While talking about Google’s Assistant, Microsoft also shared its views on Apple’s Siri saying that both businesses have an advantage with their AI-driven voice assistants.

Microsoft has attempted to allay regulatory concerns about such collaborations between Big Tech and startups, with its more than $10 billion investment in OpenAI currently under investigation by EU antitrust authorities.

It included three companies: Mistral in France, where Microsoft has spent 15 billion euros; Anthropic, which has investors including Google and Amazon; and Cohere in Canada, which has investors including Nvidia and Salesforce.