The conversation happened after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation, the report said, citing a person directly involved in the discussion.

Case in point, Google has reportedly approached the FTC and asked the agency to end Microsoft’s exclusive deal with OpenAI to provide cloud hosting for ChatGPT. It argues the deal limits competition and potentially could impose higher costs on developers seeking to use ChatGPT APIs in their products.

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Google, reportedly, has asked the U.S. FTC to break up Microsoft's exclusive deal with OpenAI on cloud servers.