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Perplexity AI Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google's Chrome

AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Perplexity has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover bid for Google's Chrome internet browser. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety would benefit the public, Perplexity said in a letter to Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google's owner Alphabet.

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AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser

Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet's Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser's billions of users pivotal to the AI search race.

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Perplexity AI reportedly makes a $34.5 billion offer to buy Chrome browser from Google, almost double their evaluation

Perplexity AI just broke the internet by offering a striking deal to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. Reportedly, the artificial intelligence startup made an all-cash offer of $34.5 billion, sources confirmed to Dexerto on August 12, 2025. It is almost double of the company's evaluation that stands at $18 million.

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China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley

Chinese advances in AI have come one after another this year, starting with the widely heralded DeepSeek and its R1 reasoning ...

OpenAI Launches GPT-OSS, Its First ‘Open’ AI Models Since 2019

OpenAI’s new open-weight models are gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. The smaller model, gpt-oss-20b, can be run on a consumer ...

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OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state of the art ...

OpenAI announces two “gpt-oss” open AI models, and you can download them today

The new OpenAI models come in two variants (120b and 20b) to run on less powerful hardware configurations. Both are ...

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China is winning in robotics manufacturing but the AI race is still wide open: Gecko Robotics

Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics says China has manufacturing prowess needed for AI buildout, but the U.S. retains a real ...

Chat GPT-5, Open AI’s Quadruple Play And The Birth Of AI Time

OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout combines cutting-edge AI features, massive consumer scale, open-source models, and enterprise ...

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

For the first time in five years, OpenAI has released two new free and open-source AI models that are lightweight and ...

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Ai2 unveils MolmoAct: Open-source robotics system reasons in 3D and adjusts on the fly

Ai2’s MolmoAct open-source robotics system brings 3D reasoning and real-time planning to robots, offering a transparent alternative to black-box models.

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Trump’s China deal on AI chips prompts significant security concerns

President Trump’s reversal on previously blocked chip sales to China has sparked cries that the White House is selling out America’s security concerns in a bid to raise revenue. Trump on Monday ...

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Ai2 releases an open AI model that allows robots to ‘plan’ movements in 3D space

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced the release of ...

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