This report has been given by Reuters. The shocking thing is that this offer is much more than its own value of Perplexity. This is considered to be the biggest step of this three -year -old AI startup.
Perplexity AI, led by Indian origin CEO Arvind Srinivas, has bid full cash of $ 34.5 billion (more than ₹ 3,02,152 crore) without any request for Google Chrome.
How much is the value of the company
Perplexity AI has so far raised about $ 1 billion from companies such as NVIDIA and SoftBank, and its current value is $ 14 billion. The company claims that many investors have offered to finance the deal, but they did not name anyone.
America is putting pressure on Google
This offer has come at a time when there is legal pressure on Google from the US government. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Google of “illegal monopoly” in online search. The court has also said the same. Google may be asked to sell Chrome browser as a possible solution. However, Google has said that it will appeal against this decision and there is no plan to sell Chrome.
Plan on Chrome of Perplexity
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Chrome’s open-source code (chromium) will be kept open
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$ 3 billion (about ₹ 26,000 crore) will be invested in the next two years
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Chrome’s default search engine will remain Google
Perplexity says that their plan will help the user to give options and balance the competition. Other companies like Open AI Yahoo and Apollo Global Management have also shown interest in Chrome. DuckDuckgo’s CEO estimates that if Chrome is forcibly sold, its price will be at least $ 50 billion.
Perplexity started in 2022
Perplexity was started in 2022 by Arvind Srinivas, Dennis Yrats, Johnny Ho and Andy Convinski. His AI search engine technology is becoming very popular. Recently, the company has also launched its own AI-powered browser named “COMET”.
Will get 3 billion users
If chrome is acquired, perplexity can reach 3 billion users worldwide. This will help the company to compete with open AI and other AI companies.
IIT studies from Madras
Arvind Srinivas was born in Chennai and studied from IIT Madras. He has previously worked in Google and has also done an internship with a large name Yoshua Bengio in the region of AI. In 2025, Perplexity partnered with Bharti Airtel, giving 360 million users of India free of free facility.
Why Chrome is special for Google
Although this offer of perplexity is very large, technical experts believe that Google will rarely sell Chrome. Chrome is an important part of Google’s AI strategy, especially for its new AI features such as “Overviews”.