Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for .5 billion

Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday.

That figure is higher than Perplexity’s current valuation, but the company said several investors have agreed to back the deal.

Google did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the bid.

Perplexity is best known for its AI-powered search engine that gives users simple answers to questions and links out to the original source material on the web. Last month, it launched its own AI-powered browser called Comet.

The U.S. Department of Justice proposed Google divest Chrome as part of the antitrust suit the company lost last year. The judge in the case ruled that Google has held an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

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