(Reuters) – Startup Character.AI announced on Friday that it has reached an agreement with Alphabet’s Google, granting the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the chatbot maker’s massive language model technology.

The agreement, which mirrors others reached by Microsoft and Amazon in recent months, will see Character.Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, co-founders of artificial intelligence, have returned to Google, where they previously worked.

Those other transactions are being reviewed by authorities, indicating rising worry in the United States and Europe about how AI agreements are put together by digital behemoths that are pouring billions of dollars into boosting their AI infrastructure and hiring the brightest researchers from startups.

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