Ep 177: Perplexity’s Bid For Google Chrome

Send us Fan MailPerplexity made headlines last week by making an unsolicited, all-cash offer of $34.5 billion to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. It wasn’t even up for sale, but owning Chrome would supercharge Perplexity’s AI strategy. Keep listening to find out why.Chrome has more than three billion users. That’s about 68% of the global browser market. For comparison, Safari sits at around 20%. Everyone else, single digits.Google’s browser isn’t just a piece of software. It’s a distribution channel for Google Search. So when Perplexity AI sent a formal bid letter to Sundar Pichai offering 34.5 billion dollars in cash, they promised to:Keep Chrome open source,Invest another 3 billion into Chrome over two years; andEven keep Google Search as the default, at least for now.Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine startup founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, a former OpenAI researcher.Want to go deeper on AI? 📖 Buy AI Playbook📩 Get my weekly LinkedIn newsletter, Human in the Loop. 🎓 Level up with the CPD Accredited AI Playbook Diploma 📞 Let's talk about AI training for your team: digitaltraining.ie or publicsectormarketingpros.com if you are in government or publics sector.