AI company Perplexity has offered to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal . The offer is being characterized as a “longshot,” especially since Perplexity itself is only valued at about $18 billion, according to the newspaper, but the idea is rooted in a very real problem for Google: A judge is currently considering whether Google’s parent company Alphabet should be forced to sell Chrome over antitrust concerns.

Perplexity told the Journal that it had investors lined up, including large venture-capital funds. The newspaper reports that Perplexity’s offer was “designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy in highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable, independent operator,” in the AI company’s words. But Alphabet, un

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