Perplexity Offers Nearly Twice Its Value to Acquire Google’s Chrome Browser

The AI provider Perplexity has given a gigantic offer for the purchase of Google’s chrome browser worth $ 34.5 billion. The amount of the bid even exceeds the current market value of the company.

Purchase price almost twice as high as the value of perplexity

Like the news agency Reuters and that Wall Street Journal report, the Ki startup Perplexity has given a takeover offer for the Chrome browser, which is said to have a value of $ 34.5 billion. The background to the US Ministry of Justice is that Google should separate from Chrome. The current evaluation of perplexity is said to be around $ 18 billion, taking into account all the company’s financing rounds. The offer is therefore almost twice as high. Despite the hardly understandable financial details, Perplexity, according to the media reports, insists that it is a offered purchase offer.

The support of a number of well-known donors has been secured, so they want to rely on several larger venture capital companies. The sum mentioned should move in the middle area of the estimated value of Chrome, whereby the browser should be worth between $ 20 and $ 50 billion – depending on who is interviewed.

Chromium Open Source Project is to be continued

Perplexity ensured in connection with its purchase offer that Chromium should continue to be continued. The open source project is to be further developed at around three billion dollars, according to the company. Chromium forms the basis of various other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, Duckduckgo and Amazon Silk. In addition, there should also be no change in the standard search engine in Chrome, which is of course Google. For perplexity, it is probably all about gaining at least in theory – access to the user base of Chrome, which currently includes around 3.5 billion users. But whether you will actually have the chance to take over Chrome is more than questionable.

Google understandably resist massively when it comes to a forced sale of Chrome. Perplexity has been criticized several times because of extremely questionable attempts to collect data from the free web for the training of his Large Language models. Just a few days ago, the service provider Cloudflare explained that Perplexity has a large scale web pages for AI training, and the limits of the Robot.txt deals knowingly and with various measures.