Failures offer to buy Google Chrome browser for $ 34.5 billion

Artificial intelligence startup Surprise II made an unwanted application for $ 34.5 billion Google’s Chrome Browser, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday.

This figure is higher than the current assessment of surprise, but the company said several investors agreed to support the deal. In July, the surprise was estimated at $ 18 billion as part of an extension that estimated $ 14 billion a month earlier.

Google did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. The Wall Street Journal First reported the application.

The surprise is most famous for its AI search engine, which gives users simple answers to questions and links to the original source material on the Internet. Last month he launched his own AI browser called Comet.

The startup is at the Center for the Battle of Rigration in Generative II, with companies, including Meta And Openai offers great wages and sign bonuses to higher engineers. Megacop -technological companies conduct tens of billions of dollars a year on AI infrastructure to create large language models and run a heavy load, while startups are collecting billions of dollars from investors, hedge facilities and technological giants to pay for equipment.

The surprise was approached Earlier this year, Meta is about potential acquisition, but the companies did not finalize the deal.

The PerPExity application comes after the US Department of Justice offered Google Disest Chrome as part Antimonopoly suit The company lost last year. The judge has ruled that Google had an illegal monopoly on its main search market.

In replyGoogle said DOJ pushed the “radical intervention program” and that the agency’s proposal was “wild loading”. The company has not yet revealed how it plans to set up its business after the antitrust ruling.

Chromium that Google Launched in 2008, provides the search giant with the data it uses to target advertising. DOJ said in the court’s decision that the company’s compulsion will get rid of Chrome to create more equal conditions for search competitors.

“To correct these damage, (the initial suggested final opinion) requires Google to rid Chrome, which constantly stop control of Google over this critical search point and allow competitive search engines to access the browser that is internet for many users,” DJ writes.

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