AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise $34.5bn bid for Google Chrome
Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative astonishment offered to take over $ 34.5 billion (£ 25.6 billion) for Google’s Chrome Internet browser.
In a letter to Sundar Pichai, the owner of Google’s owner Alphabet, said that the transport of chromium to an independent operator connected to user security would benefit the public.
Google’s search engine and the dominance of the online advertising market under intensive examination, the technology giant brought by the US Department of Justice for a year of antitröst cases faced.
BBC contacted Google for a comment. The company did not announce its plan to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser with more than three billion users.
A US federal judge is expected to make a decision that can see that Google’s search this month was ordered.
However, some analysts said that the bid is not likely to succeed, as Google is still unclear if it is forced to sell Chrome.
Capitalist Tomasz TUNGUZ from Ventures is much lower than the value of the browser, Capitalist Tomasz TUNGUZ, Capitalist Considering that the bid is much lower than the value of the browser, is significantly higher than the bid.
The company said that the idea of turning Chrome will harm consumers and security, saying that it would object to such a decision, saying that it was an unprecedented proposal “.
Perplexity’s application, Openai’s Chatgpt and Google’s twins, as well as better -known platforms, as well as rising players in the productive AI race.
Last month, he launched an AI -backed browser called astonishment Comet.
“A significant commitment to the open Web, user selection and chrome for everyone who chooses Chrome” indicates.
As part of the proposed acquisition, Perplexity said that even though users can set their settings, they will continue to have Google as the default search engine in Chrome.
The company said it would protect and support Chromium, a widely used open -source platform, which supports Chrome and other browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Opera.
The astonishment did not answer the queries on how to finance the proposed agreement. In July, the estimated value was $ 18 billion.
The company made headlines at the beginning of this year after being sold by the owner of China in September or offering a US version of Tiktok, which was faced with a deadline to be banned in the USA.
The astonishment reportedly attracted attention from technology giants, including Apple and Facebook owner Meta.
