Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
AI startup Perplexity offered $34.5B to buy Google Chrome—nearly double its own $18B valuation. The unsolicited bid follows a promise to snap up Chrome if regulators force a sale and comes months after its TikTok offer. Google hasn’t shown interest, and no court order mandates a sale. Perplexity has lined up financing and plans to invest $3B in Chrome and Chromium over two years.
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