{"id":954566,"date":"2025-08-13T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954566"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:11:45","slug":"perplexity-google-chrome-bid-ai-startup-perplexity-makes-bold-34-5-billion-bid-for-googles-chrome-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-ai-startup-perplexity-makes-bold-34-5-billion-bid-for-googles-chrome-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity Google Chrome bid: AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google&#8217;s Chrome browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser&#8217;s billions of users pivotal to the AI search race. <\/p>\n<p>Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers: it made a similar one for TikTok US in January, offering to merge with the popular short-video app to resolve U.S. concerns about TikTok&#8217;s Chinese ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser&#8217;s billions of users pivotal to the AI search race. Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers: it made a similar one for TikTok US in January, offering to merge with the popular short-video app to resolve U.S. concerns about TikTok&#8217;s Chinese ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}