Perplexity offers to buy chrome for billions of more than it is raised

In a monshot mooons, ai search the engine is offered to buy chrome from Google for $ 34.5 billion in a non-requested offer, Reuters reportedand perplexity confirmed to techcrunnch.

Perpsxity says TC the offer terms include a commitment to keep the engine below chrome, Open the Super in it. Perplexity offer includes a promise to invest $ 3 billion in the open source project.

Perplexity is also presented not to change chrome username defects, including predetermined search engine. This is, perplexity is promising to leave Google as the search engine rather than to make their own A-Powered option.

Google could not reach for comment. Techcrunch updates the item if the company responds.

This offer comes after the Department of Justice proposal in March that Google is required to sell chrome After a judge has regulated the technical giant acts illegally to maintain a monopoly in the search online. Google has not agreed to sell chrome and voted to fight the guide.

The perplexity peakness believes that the Court soon set terms for remedies, maybe after this month. (Google is still fighting another federal case where the judge has illegal ADECH Monopolized, and the Doj is proposing Google be forced to divided two of their adtech products or otherwise break their ad.)

When the Doj first proposed that Google Die Chrome, Both open and it Perplexed Interest expressed in purchase. Date that Chrome is the dominant browser, with 68% Magazines According to statconter, If the court rules is won, no doubt than others in the world would like to be feeding.

Interesting, the CEO of Rabal Secund Shuthout Engine Duckducgo witness in April that Chrome could be worth “upon $ 50 billion” Bloomberg reported at the moment. I am The perplexity offer has successful, it could be considered a bargain.

However, this offer for Chrome is much more than perplexity has risen is invested and more of the current evaluation of the beginning. Perplexity has raised about $ 1.5 billion date, including a $ 100 million extension raised the past month that has assessed $ 18 billion Bloomberg reported.

Meanwhile, perplexity last month launched his own browser, named comet, In his attendencies to cultivate their ai search business without having their customers across a browser, particularly one of the principal Google rival.

And, by the way last month, the perplexity even informed Sent an offer to join with Tiktok.