The Wall Street Journal: Perplexity AI plans to acquire Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

ChainCatcher news, according to The Wall Street Journal, the artificial intelligence search platform Perplexity AI has made a $34.5 billion acquisition offer to Google's Chrome browser to challenge Google's dominance in search.

Perplexity's offer far exceeds its own valuation (estimated at $18 billion). Perplexity stated that several investors, including several large venture capital funds, have agreed to fully support the transaction.