Many see Perplexity’s bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser as a strategic statement rather than a likely transaction.

Google has received an offer from AI startup Perplexity for Chrome. The offer stands at $34.5 billion, twice what Perplexity is worth, but there's a problem as Chrome isn't actually for sale. We're not usually in the business of writing about potential buy outs,

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.