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

Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity AI has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover bid for the world's most popular web browser, Google Chrome. The three-year-old firm, whose backers include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and chip maker Nvidia, is headed by a former Google and OpenAI employee.

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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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AI startup Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

In an unlikely bid that shows the growing brashness of young artificial intelligence companies, the AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited offer to buy Google’s Chrome web browser for $34.5 billion.

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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 ...

Forget Galaxy Buds, Soundcore’s Open-Ear Headphones Go for Peanuts and Have Real-Time AI Translation

The Soundcore AeroFit 2 Open-Ear Headphones come in four different colors, all of which are on sale today, and have ...

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’s open-source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China’s AI boom

Baidu, once the leader in China’s AI development with its ERNIE model, went open-source a few months ago to catch up with ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman's AI Feud Gets Nasty

The two AI heavyweights got into a public fight over their rival companies, with each accusing the other of dishonesty.

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Trump’s China deal on Nvidia, AMD AI chips prompts security concerns

President Trump’s reversal on previously blocked chip sales to China has sparked cries that the White House is selling out ...

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AI leader stuns Google with move that could reshape the internet

The AI search startup just floated the massive unsolicited offer for Chrome, backed by investors. Additionally, it also ...

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