- Perplexity has made a $34.5 billion cash offer to acquire the Google Chrome browser, surpassing its own market value of $18 billion.
- The offer includes maintaining the Chromium engine as open-source, investing $3 billion in its development, and keeping users’ default settings unchanged.
- Chrome holds 68% of the global browser market share and was previously valued at over $50 billion.
Perplexity has announced a massive $34.5 billion cash offer to acquire Google Chrome, the world’s most widely used browser.
Notably, the proposed offer exceeds Perplexity’s current market value of just $18 billion and is roughly 23 times the total funding the company has received since its founding — $1.5 billion.
The offer includes a clear commitment from Perplexity to keep the Chromium engine open-source, along with a $3 billion investment in the project’s development. The company also pledged not to alter Chrome’s default settings, including users’ default search engine.
Chrome currently holds about 68% of the global browser market share and was previously valued at over $50 billion.
Founded in 2022, Perplexity has quickly emerged as a prominent player in technology and artificial intelligence. Just last month, the company launched its own browser, Comet — a move that may signal its ambition to enter the browser market in a big way.
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