Artificial Intelligence (AI) Start-Up Perplexity has offered an $ 34.5BN (£ 25.6BN) acquisition for Google’s Chrome Internet browser.
The public would benefit from taking Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety, Perplexity said that the owner of Google has been called in a letter to the Boss Sundar Pichai, the boss of the alphabet.
The search engine and online advertising market’s dominance of Google has come under the integral investigation, in which the technology giant is facing a one -year mistake case brought by the US Department of Justice.
The BBC has approached Google for comment. The firm has not announced any plan to sell Chrome – an estimated three billion -plus users with the world’s most popular web browser.
An American federal judge is expected to issue a decision this month that Google may be ordered to break his search business.
But some analysts have said that the bid is unlikely to be successful as it is still not clear whether Google will be forced to sell Chrome.
Venture capitalist Tonuz Tunguz from Theory Ventures also told the BBC that the proposal is much less than the browser “the value of Chrome is much higher – perhaps ten times more valuable than bid or more.”
The company has said that it would appeal to such a decision, saying that the idea of spinning with Chrome was an “unprecedented proposal” that would harm consumers and safety.
Perplexity’s app is one of the growing players in the tribal AI race, with more famous platforms like Chatgpt of Openai and Google’s Gemini.
Last month, Perplexity launched an AI-managed browser called Comat.
A BBC spokesperson told the BBC that the bid is “the open web, the user’s choice and a significant commitment for continuity for all, and continuity for all.
As part of the proposed acquisition, Perplexity stated that it would continue Google as a default search engine within Chrome, although users can accommodate their settings.
The firm stated that it would also maintain and support chromium, a widely used open-source platform that supports chrome and other browsers including Microsoft Edge and Opera.
Perplexity did not respond to how the proposed deal would be funded. In July, its estimated value was $ 18bn.
The company made headlines after offering to purchase the US version of Tikok earlier this year, which faces the deadline for being sold by its Chinese owner in September or being banned in the US.
Perplexity has allegedly taken interest in technology giants including Apple and Facebook-Malik Meta.
