Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than its raised | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer.
- The terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it.
- This bid comes after the Department of Justice proposed in March that Google be forced to sell Chrome after a judge ruled the tech giant acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search.
- The CEO of rival search engine DuckDuckGo testified in April that Chrome could be worth “upwards of $50 billion,” Bloomberg reported.
In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer, Reuters reported and Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch.Per [+2347 chars]
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