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Perplexity’s Bold $34.5B Bid for Google ChromePerplexity aims to invest $3B in Chromium and maintain Chrome support for 100 months if the deal succeeds.
- AI search startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion proposal to acquire Google’s Chrome browser.
- This move comes amid a US antitrust ruling pushing Google to divest Chrome, which Google plans to appeal.
- Perplexity intends to keep users’ current browser preferences and continue supporting Chrome for more than eight years.
- The company also commits to investing $3 billion in Chromium’s open-source platform over the next two years.
We believe in the open web.— Dwyer said this in the context of Perplexity's offer to buy Google Chrome.
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