Despite advocating against Google divesting from Chrome, Perplexity has now gone above and beyond its $20 billion market value to bid $34.5 billion for Google Chrome, while the browser is worth $50 billion.

Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet's Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser's billions of users pivotal to the AI search race.

Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity has made an unsolicited, $34.5 billion offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser, a surprise move by a Google Search challenger that’s looking to upend how people find information online.