Perplexity AI wants to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion | Infinium-tech

Startup behind AI service with the same name, Perplexity AI has clearly proposed to buy Chrome from Google. The amount that is ready to pay? According to a new, $ 34.5 billion Roots Report.

This is not the first time Perplexity offered a headline -hathaniana – back in January, also said that it wanted to buy Tiktok’s American operations. Obviously, nothing came (at least yet). Perplexity has not explained how it is planning to fund its acquisition of Chrome, just stating that many funds have offered to give full finance to the deal (without any name). It has so far raised about 1 billion dollars in funding for its AI Chatbot, and it is clearly away from whatever is offering here.

For Chrome dialect, openi, Yahoo, and private-equity firm Apollo Global Management have also expressed interest so far. All this stems from regulatory pressure in the US, which is moving towards Google, selling Chrome to reduce its grip on the industry.

For its share, Google has not yet really offered Chrome for sale, and has planned to appeal to the US court verdict since last year, which found that it is an illegal monopoly in online search. The US Department of Justice has demanded a chrome cell-off as part of the treatment of that case. A federal judge is expected to pronounce a verdict on measures in this month in this month.

Perplexity recently launched its AI-infused browser, comet. Its main sales point is being able to work on your behalf. Obviously, buying chrome allows for its AI services to avail more than three billion users, and it will allow better competition with elephants in the AI room – openaiI (who, coincidentally, is also working on its own AI browser).

Perplexity promises to keep the underlying chromium code open source, and invests $ 3 billion in two years in the browser without making any changes in the Chrome’s default search engine. The company feels that the acquisition of Chrome will preserve the user’s choice and reduce future competition concerns.