Aug. 12 (UPI) -- AI startup Perplexity has offered to buy Google Chrome in a deal for tens of billions of dollars.

The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence software company in July was valued at about $18 billion. The company made a $34.5 billion unsolicited offer to buyout Google's Chrome browser, The Wall Street Journal first reported.

In addition, Perplexity said it would commi t to keeping Google's open-source Chromium project.

The Google Chrome browser, which launched in 2008, has a reported valuation of anywhere between $20 billion to $50 billion.

Perplexity said multiple investors have agreed to back the deal despite its current valuation as it battles for supremacy in the AI marketplace with bigger names such as OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg 's Meta, which approa

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