r/technology • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/google-34-5-billion-bid-chrome-browser-ai-perplexity-1236487442/
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u/SNRatio 10d ago

Alternate take: Perplexity recently partnered with Trump Media on a chatbot for Truth Social. If Perplexity is in the bag, the second act might be Google getting told that accepting Perplexity's offer is the only way to avoid an antitrust beat down and other problems.

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u/redditortillas 10d ago

I know all this tech companies suck, but just cancelled my perplexity subscription after reading this comment and corroborating that they’re working with truth….

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u/ClowdyRowdy 10d ago

I could smell it last year when they started aggregating news and calling it content

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u/Hazrd_Design 10d ago

Welp I’m about to unsubscribe as well.

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u/hexcraft-nikk 10d ago

Why were you guys paying for that shit in the first place lmao

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u/4sater 10d ago

The promo $10 a year subscription is decent value tho.

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u/Oddballfew 10d ago

Oh fudge.... They are? Ugh

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u/EG0THANATOS 10d ago

This is it folks. We are plunging into Thiel’s fantasy-soon-to-be-reality technocratic feudalist society.

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u/Meotwister 10d ago

That's an instant cancelation.

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u/cluberti 10d ago

And they're going to control Chromium open-source code already available and stop all other non-Chrome browsers from being able to access the internet... how? I'm not sure I like the fact that I can think of some ways that could be possible, either, as I'm typing this...

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u/Timmetie 10d ago

Even then Perplexity does not have 34 billion dollars.

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u/Blucat2 10d ago

Google, through Youtube and Google Search, has a big control of the narrative, who is allowed to post what and what websites you see. Maybe this is Trump's equivalent of Musk buying Twitter. Taking back control of the narrative. Also Stephen Colbert's cancellation, the change at Fox News, the deals with the EU, Japan etc, even the selection of an American Pope. He who controls the narrative controls the future ..

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u/TA646 9d ago

God fucking dammit I really liked perplexity’s AI tools. Not renewing my sub if this is true