Perplexity has just offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion — a bid that’s far more than the AI search startup itself is valued at, according to reports ~from The Wall Street Journal~ and ~Bloomberg~. The startup sent the unsolicited bid on Tuesday, just months after ~Perplexity said it would buy Chrome~ if the government ~forces Google to sell its browser~.
I’m thinking Perplexity is trying to stay relevant. They’re probably not going to survive as a company when the great AI consolidation comes.
This is almost certainly a way to get them in the news because they could go to the Chromium project and contribute to it as well as forking it and making their very own Perplexity branded browser. Heck they could probably get Brave or The Browser Company for much less. Hey, there’s even WebKit and Firefox if you want to start with a different browser engine, right?
But, there is a very obvious answer to their offer, right? 🤔
Just vibe code your own browser in a type safe language like Swift or Rust and rule the world! 😈