LONDON (AP) — Britain's competition watchdog said Friday that it's clearing Amazon's partnership with artificial intelligence company Anthropic because the $4 billion deal didn't qualify for further scrutiny.

Amazon's $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic gets UK competition approval as the deal didn't meet scrutiny requirements. The partnership involves Anthropic using Amazon Web Services and custom chips for AI model development.

Britain's competition regulator on Friday cleared Amazon's investment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an American developer of artificial intelligence, following a short probe. The British regulator had probed whether the partnership caused "a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services".

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has cleared Amazon's $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, determining it does not need further scrutiny under merger regulations. Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services and custom chips for its AI models.

Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) partnership with generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic does not qualify for an investigation, the U.K.'s antitrust agency said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a release that the deal did not need an investigation,