Perplexity AI: This company wants to buy Chrome by paying 'double' the price, gave an offer of Rs 2.98 lakh crore..

AI startup company Perplexity AI is now eyeing Google's most popular internet browser. This AI company has offered $34.5 billion to buy Chrome. The surprising thing is that this company has offered twice the estimated market value of Chrome of $18 billion, which means that Perplexity is ready to pay double the price to buy Chrome. Google has not shown any desire to sell Chrome; this move of Perplexity is similar to its earlier attempt to acquire TikTok's US operations this year.

Google has not responded. One thing is clear from this: at present, Google is not showing interest in selling its popular browser. At present, Google is going to appeal against the decision in the US court in which the company was accused of a monopoly in online search. In this case, the US Justice Department has recommended separating Chrome.

How much will Google Chrome change if the deal is done?
According to the term sheet seen by Reuters, Perplexity AI says that if the deal happens, the company will maintain the open source code of the browser and invest $3 billion in two years. Along with this, it has also promised that no changes will be made to the Chrome default search engine.

These companies are also interested in Chrome.
According to media reports, market analysts say that this offer of Perplexity AI is much less than the (potential) value of $50 billion stated by DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg. Apart from Perplexity, OpenAI, Yahoo and private equity firm Apollo Global Management have also shown interest in buying Google Chrome, but till now there has been no official statement from Google on selling Chrome.

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