Many see Perplexity’s bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser as a strategic statement rather than a likely transaction.

Perplexity AI has made a surprise $34.5 billion cash bid for Google Chrome, aiming to acquire the browser's billions of users amid an antitrust case that could force Google to sell.

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