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CMA finds Amazon’s $4bn Anthropic partnership falls outside UK merger rules

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Source: Competition and Markets AuthorityAlso reported by PYMNTS

On 27 September 2024 the Competition and Markets Authority decided that Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic did not qualify for investigation under the Enterprise Act 2002, closing a Phase 1 inquiry opened on 8 August. The CMA found that Anthropic’s UK turnover did not exceed £70 million and that the parties did not together hold a 25% share of supply of any UK goods or services. Amazon kept a minority stake and took no board seat.

Why it matters

Cloud providers investing in model developers saw that the UK’s turnover and share-of-supply thresholds can keep a large AI partnership out of merger review.

When
27 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0165
Who
Competition and Markets Authority, Amazon, Anthropic
Authority
Competition and Markets Authority
Target
Amazon; Anthropic
Action
decision: does not qualify for investigation
Status
closed · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Competition and Markets Authority and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0165: “CMA finds Amazon’s $4bn Anthropic partnership falls outside UK merger rules.” wheresthe.ai, 27 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-cma-amazon-anthropic-not-qualifying-2024-09/ (source: Competition and Markets Authority).

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