Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google
Google has strenuously objected to the government's proposed Chrome divestment, which it calls "a radical interventionist agenda." Chrome isn't just a browser—it's an open source project known as Chromium, which powers numerous non-Google browsers, including Microsoft's Edge. Perplexity's offer includes $3 billion to run Chromium over two years, and it allegedly vows to keep the project fully open source. Perplexity promises it also won't enforce changes to the browser's default search engine.
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