{"id":63483,"date":"2025-08-12T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63483\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:25:08","slug":"ai-startup-perplexity-makes-52-8b-bid-for-googles-chrome-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63483\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Perplexity makes $52.8b bid for Google\u2019s Chrome browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco | AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google\u2019s Chrome browser for $US34.5 billion ($52.8 billion), in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant in antitrust proceedings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/openai-perplexity-take-aim-at-chrome-to-raid-300b-search-goldmine-20250714-p5meou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The unsolicited bid<\/a> was sent to Alphabet\u2019s Google on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), a Perplexity spokesperson said. It comes not long after rival artificial intelligence startup OpenAI also expressed interest in acquiring Chrome, which together with the open-source Chromium software is the main way people access the web on PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco | AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google\u2019s Chrome browser for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-63483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}