Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome for $34.5B, WSJ reports

Perplexity has offered $34.5B to acquire Google’s Chrome browser, The Wall Street Journal’s Katherine Blunt reports. The company told the publication that several investors including large venture-capital funds had agreed to back the transaction in full. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta is weighing whether to force Google to sell the browser after ruling that Google illegally monopolized the search market. In a letter to Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) CEO Sundar Pichai, Perplexity says its offer to buy Chrome is “designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy in highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable, independent operator.”