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Alexandros Kazimirov

Alexandros Kazimirov is a Fellow at the American Antitrust Institute where his research focuses on nascent competition in artificial intelligence markets. He graduated from Berkeley Law School. While in law school, he clerked at the European Court of Justice. Upon graduation, he was appointed a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School.
Antitrust and Competition

Are Big Tech’s Quasi-Mergers With AI Startups Anticompetitive?

Alexandros Kazimirov
The Federal Trade Commission’s case against Meta for monopolizing personal social media through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp serves as a warning of allowing Big Tech companies to acquire nascent competitors in the artificial intelligence market through quasi-mergers that dodge government scrutiny. Based on new research, Alexandros Kazimirov argues that antitrust agencies can look at a combination of circumstantial evidence, including market product proximity, price premiums and product discontinuation, to help adjust their approach to keep AI markets contestable, rather than trying to restore contestability ten years from now.

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