United Kingdom, April 27 -- Microsoft will comply with the UK Competition and Markets Authority amid their AI row.

The tech giant will be under investigation by the organisation over its investment of the AI firm Mistral and the hiring of the DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as head of the US company's new AI division but are "confident" that there nothing untoward has happened.

A spokesperson for the company told CNBC: "We remain confident that common business practices such as the hiring of talent or making a fractional investment in an AI start-up promote competition and are not the same as a merger. We will provide the UK Competition and Markets Authority with the information it needs to complete its inquiries expeditiously."

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