AI startup Perplexity makes $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser

AI STARTUP Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion (R621bn), in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant in antitrust proceedings.

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The unsolicited bid was sent to Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday morning, a Perplexity spokesperson said. It comes not long after rival artificial intelligence startup OpenAI also expressed interest in acquiring Chrome, which together with the open-source Chromium software is the main way people access the web on PCs.