Perplexity Ai opens his portfolio very large to try to convince Google. Specializing in online research, the artificial intelligence start-up (IA) proposed on Tuesday to buy the Chrome browser for 34.5 billion dollars, whose future is threatened by the condemnation for abuse of the dominant position of the Internet giant.
The start-up confirmed that it had sent a letter of intent to Google. The information was first revealed by the Wall Street Journal.
David wants a game of Goliath
According to the economic daily life, Perplexity is worth around $ 18 billion, just over half of the offer made to the Californian group. But a company spokesperson assured that several major investment funds want to participate in the financing of this acquisition, and that management was not worried about its ability to bring together the advanced sum.
Perplexity combines an AI assistant and a search engine to find information on the web, like Google, and provide answers to user questions, such as Chatgpt.
Google’s sentence soon known
In its letter, the start-up undertakes to invest substantially in the browser, to make offers to key employees of chrome, and above all to never change the default search engine, that is to say Google.
Notre dossier High-Tech
Google was found guilty in the summer of 2024 of illegal practices to establish and maintain its monopoly in online research. Her sentence has not yet been pronounced, but she is expected this month. The US Ministry of Justice notably asked the judge to order Google to sell his Chrome browser, a measure that could transform the Internet. In his letter, Perplexity affirms that his buyout has been designed “to meet the requirements of competition law, in the interest of the public, by entrusting the browser to an independent and competent operator. »»
