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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised


Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer.

Perplexity tells TC the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it. That is, Perplexity is promising to leave Google as the search engine rather than making its own AI-powered option the default. When the DOJ first proposed that Google divest Chrome, both OpenAI and Perplexity expressed interest in buying it.

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