PerTlexity AI has offered $ 34.5 billion to buy Google’s widely used Chrome browser, because the technical giant is confronted with potential antitrust-driven pressure to sell.
The no less than amount proposed in a declaration of intent due to perplexity is almost double the value of the startup, which was said to be $ 18 billion in a recent financing round.
“Dit voorstel is ontworpen om te voldoen aan een antitrust -remedie in het hoogste publieke belang door Chrome te plaatsen met een capabele, onafhankelijke operator gericht op continuïteit, openheid en consumentenbescherming,” zei Aravind Srinivas van Parmlexity Chief Executive Aravind Srinivas in de brief, waarvan een kopie werd gezien door de brief, waarvan een kopie werd gezien door de brief, waarvan een kopie werd gezien door The letter, of which a copy was seen by the letter, a copy of which was seen by the letter, a copy of which was seen by AFP.
Google is waiting for the judgment of the American court Amit Mehta about what “legal remedies” to impose, after a milestone decision last year that said that the Tech Titan has maintained an illegal monopoly for online search.
US government lawyers have called on Google to divert themselves from the Chrome browser and claim that artificial intelligence is ready to increase the dominance of the technology giant as the go-to-window on the internet.
Google has urged Mehta at the disposal and his decision is expected at the end of the month.
Google did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
The range of Pertlexity underwances Chrome enormously and “should not be taken seriously,” said Baird Equity Research analysts in a note to investors.
Given that Pertlexity already has a browser that competes with Chrome, the startup in San Francisco could try to cause others to offer or “influence the current decision” in the antitrust store, theoretized BairD analysts.
“Anyway, we believe that perplexity would consider an independent chromium – or someone who is no longer affiliated with Google – as an advantage because it is trying to take a browser share,” BairD analysts told investors.
Google claims that the United States went much further than the cutlery of the suit by recommending a spider from Chrome and keeping the option open to force a sale of its Android mobile operating system.
“Forcing the sale of Chrome or prohibiting standard agreements would not promote competition,” says Cato Institute Senior Fellow in technology policy Jennifer Huddleston.
“It would bump innovation, smaller players hurt and leave users with worse products.”
Google lawyer John Schmidtlein noted in court that more than 80% of Chrome users are outside the United States, which means that divestments would have worldwide consequences.
“Every shot of chrome would be a shadow of the current chrome,” he argued.
“And once we are in that world, I don’t see how you can say that someone is better off.”
The potential of Chrome that is weakened or split off comes as rivals such as Microsoft, Chatgpt and Pertlexity generative artificial intelligence (AI) to remove information from the internet in response to user questions.
Google is one of the technology companies that invest heavily to be a leader in AI and weave the technology in searches and other online offers.
