The artificial intelligence company (AI) Perplexity offered on Tuesday buy the Google Chrome Browser For 34,500 million dollars, according to specialized means.
The Perplexity offer considerably exceeds its own assessment, estimated at 18,000 million dollars. However, the company scored The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that several investors agreed to support the transaction as a whole.
This offer occurs when the federal judge AMIT MEHTA is considering the possibility of force Google to sell the browser for weaken your dominance over web searches.
Last year, Mehta ruled that Google illegally monopolized the searches market and this month the judge is expected to rule on how to restore competition.
Meanwhile, according to WSJ, today’s offer could be an attempt to indicate to the judge that there is an interested buyer, in case the sale forces.
The media indicates that Perplexity today sent a letter addressed to Pichai sundarExecutive Director of Alphabet -The Google parent company- stating that its Chrome purchase offer is “designed to satisfy a antitrust measure In the highest public interest, when placing Chrome in the hands of an independent and competent operator. “
The letter also points out that as part of the proposed acquisition, it would maintain and support Chromium, The open source project that supports Chrome and other browsers, and indicated that it would continue to use Google as the predetermined search engine in Chrome, although users could change the configuration.
Perplexity recently launched its own Web browser, called Comet.
Chrome It has approximately 3.5 billion users worldwide and It represents more than 60 % of the global browse market. EFE
