The artificial intelligence (AI) race has always been about moving faster than the competition. Now, a new lawsuit is asking what happens when some of the biggest players in that race start talking about slowing down together.
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI (SPCX), and Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google are facing an antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, who are paying subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, allege that the companies illegally coordinated efforts to slow the pace of AI development, arguing that such an arrangement could limit competition and reduce the value consumers receive from their subscriptions.