Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

In a Munshot step, AI search engine confusion has proposed to purchase chrome from Google in an unreasonable offer of $ 34.5 billion in cash, Reported ReutersAnd confirmed the confusion confirmed the TechCrunch.

The confusion is called TC’s terms of the offer that the underlying engine of the Chrome, chromium, open source and the promise to continue investing. The Open Source Project includes the promise of $ 3 billion investment in the offer of surprise.

The confusion is also promising not to change the user’s defaults to Chrome users with default search engine. This is, the confusion is promising Google to leave as a search engine rather than defaults to its own AI-driven option.

Google could not be reached for comments. The article will update the article if the TechCrunch company responds.

This bid comes after the proposal of the judiciary in March Google Chrome will be forced to sell After the judge Tech Giant played illegally To maintain exclusive in online search. Google has not agreed to sell chrome and promised to fight against the verdict.

The spokesperson of the confusion believes that the court will soon determine the terms of the remedy, perhaps the end of this month. (Google is also fighting And a federal case where the judge has illegally judged it Monopolized AdTEC, and DOJ suggests that Google will be forced to divide its two adtec products or otherwise its ad business))))

When the DOJ first suggested that Google Divest Divest, Both open And Confusion It has expressed interest in buying it. Provided that the chrome is the dominant browser, including 68% of the marketshare According to the Statcounters, If the court rules Chrome must be sold, there is no doubt that others will want to bid worldwide.

The funny thing is, the rival search engine Dacadakgo’s CEO testified in April that the price of Chrome is “more than $ 50 billion,” may “be” Bloomberg reported at the timeThe The offer of confusion should be successful, it can be considered as a bargain.

Nevertheless, this offer for Chrome is much higher than the confusion from investors and more than the current evaluation of startup. The confusion has collected about $ 1.5 billion till today, pitchbook estimates, with the last month’s 100 million dollar extension round it paid $ 18 billion, Bloomberg reported.

In the meantime, confusion last month Has launched its own browser known as Comet, It is not serving customers through browser, especially its main rival, without serving the customer of one of Google -owned customers, to increase its AI search business.

And, however, in the last month, the misleading Submitted a bid to merge with Tiktok.