Perplexity Proposes $34.5 Billion Purchase of Google's Chrome Browser
Perplexity aims to leverage Chrome's 68% global market share and invest $3 billion in development to challenge AI rivals amid U.S. antitrust actions against Google.
- Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to buy Google's Chrome browser, as reported by WSJ and CNBC.
- Perplexity stated that several investors have agreed to back the transaction in full, according to the Journal.
- A federal court previously ruled that Google is a monopoly, impacting the antitrust case remedies expected this month.
- Perplexity has backing from several large venture-capital funds and has raised around $1 billion in funding from investors including Nvidia and SoftBank.
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The startup specializing in artificial intelligence Perplexity has confirmed that it has put a huge amount on the table to be able to buy back Chrome in case of an obligation to resell its browser imposed on Google. Sufficient?
Perplexity made a $34.5 billion cash offer for Google's Chrome browser, a move that more than doubles its own valuation and that, if accepted, would put it at the center of the war for the search in the IA era. The company, just three years old and backed by Nvidia and SoftBank, had already tried something similar in January with TikTok US. Now it targets over 3,000 million Chrome users, a key piece for any giant who wants to control search traf…
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