Euractiv understands that France and Germany are pushing the European Commission to launch a market investigation following the qualitative criterion. Still, this process could take years and might take years of litigation to conclude.
Meanwhile, the AI market is moving at break-necking speed, with new generations of foundation models released every few months.
According to Jonathan Sage, a senior policy advisor at Portland, without the DMA’s cloud designation, there is little the EU can do to prevent them from creating dependencies between their cloud infrastructure and the foundation models."
