Tech giants battling for content to train AI, Microsoft CEO says

Big tech firms are locked in a competition to secure vast quantities of content and data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday.

Nadella was testifying in an antitrust trial the U.S. government has brought against Google, which is the first major tech-industry antitrust case in the U.S. since the government sued Microsoft in 1998. Nadella testified that Google has locked down content with costly exclusive deals and said that the race for content among tech firms “reminds me of the early phases of distribution dea