Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, has made a bold $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google Chrome, a move that has sparked widespread debate in the t

Perplexity aims to acquire Chrome for $34.5 billion, seeking to enhance its AI capabilities and user base. The three-year-old company has secured approximately $1 billion in funding to date from investors.

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.