AI search startup Perplexity has made an unexpected $34.5 billion offer to buy Google Chrome, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
The offer is nearly double Perplexity’s own estimated value of about $18 billion.
The bid, sent on Tuesday, comes months after Perplexity said it would purchase Chrome if the government forced Google to sell its popular browser. Earlier this year, the startup also expressed interest in buying TikTok. So far, Google has not shown any sign of selling Chrome, and the court has not ordered such a move.
Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer confirmed the reports, while the company’s chief business officer, Dmitry Shevelenko, told Bloomberg that several large investment funds have agreed to finance the deal. If successful, Perplexity says it plans to invest over $3 billion in Chrome and its open-source version Chromium within the next two years.
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