{"id":954759,"date":"2025-08-13T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954759"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:32:19","slug":"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\/ai-startup-perplexity-makes-bold-34-5-billion-bid-for-googles-chrome-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google&#8217;s Chrome browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI said it has made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser, a low but bold bid that would need financing well above the startup&#8217;s own valuation. <\/p>\n<p>Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers &#8211; 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<p>Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser&#8217;s more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race as regulatory pressure threatens Google&#8217;s grip on the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI said it has made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser, a low but bold bid that would need financing well above the startup&#8217;s own valuation. Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers &#8211; 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. Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser&#8217;s more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race as regulatory pressure threatens Google&#8217;s grip on the [&hellip;]<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954759","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=954759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}