In Moonshot move, worrying a AI search engine has been prepared to buy Chrome from Google with $ 34.5 billion in deals that do not get, Reuters reported And the worry has been confirmed to the techcrunch.
Perplexity tells TC terms including commitment to maintain an undearing machine to maintain an underinging machine to maintain chromium, Chromium, open source and continues to invest. The perchanty calm is included promise to invest $ 3 billion to the open source project.
Perplexity also promises will not change Chrome Chrome users, including default search engines. That is, worried a promise to leave Google as a search engine instead of making its own AI-exploring ai-exploring.
Google cannot be reached for commentation. TechCrunch will update the article if the company responded.
This offer is after the priced department is proposed in the March Google was forced to sell Chrome After the judge Manage Technology Giants that act illegal to maintain monopoly in online search. Google disagree to sell Chrome and swear to fight the decision.
The spokesman believes believes in the court will immediately set the term for medicine, maybe this month. (Google is also fighting other federal case where the judge commanded illegally Adtech monopolized, and the Doj proposed Google forced to dive two Adtech products or used business.)
When the Doj first proposes to google Divest Chrome, Two Opening and Apprehensive express interest for purchase. Gently given the dominant browser, with a 68% market According to Statcounter, If the Chrome rule court should be sold, no doubt others around the world want to be developed as well.
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The wonderful, COO search Duck Duck Duck duck entered April that Chrome can be worth “up to $ 50 billion,” Bloomberg reported at the timeSee rankings-. Must offer a gun should be successful, it can be considered bargain.
Still, this offer for Chrome is more than a very worry of investors and more than the starting value. The perplexity has estimated about $ 1.5 billion, including $ 100 million extension rounds that the past is worth $ 18 billion, Bloomberg reported.
In the meantime, worried about the past month launch your own browser, which is called comets, In the offer to grow a AI searching business without having to serve customers through the browser, especially the main rival of Google Competition.
And, in a way, last month, worried as well as reported Send an offer to join the Tiktok.

