Perplexity has offered to purchase Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, even though the world's most-used browser is not for sale. A report by The Wall Street Journal detailed the peculiar offer from Perplexity. Several parts of the offer are strange, including the fact that Chrome is not for sale. Additionally, Perplexity's own valuation states that the company is worth around $18 billion, only slightly more than half of the value of its offer to buy Chrome.
Reportedly, large venture-capital funds have agreed to back the transaction if it were to go through, though that seems unlikely at the moment. Google has found itself on the receiving end of a DOJ antitrust case in the United States over the last few years. A federal judge ruled that Google's payments to companies to make Google the default search engine violated antitrust law.
