Artificial intelligence search firm, Perplexity, has made a $34.5 billion offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser.
  
The bid comes as Google awaits a court’s decision after a landmark ruling last year found that the Internet giant had violated US antitrust law with its search business. 
  
The US Justice Department had proposed that Google sell its Chrome browser.
  
Google had promised to appeal the ruling and called the idea of spinning off Chrome an “unprecedented proposal”, saying it would harm consumers and security. 
  
Perplexity’s offer, while likely a long shot, given Google’s resistance to a forced sale of Chrome, marks the latest example of how new firms are taking on tech’s biggest players to reshape the internet in the AI era.
  
Perplexity is a nearly three-year-old startup whose search tool uses AI models to parse web content and curate answers. Answers are usually posted as a summary, although Perplexity does provide links to its sources. It launched an AI search engine that competes with Google’s dominant offering in December 2022.
  
Checks by The Guardian showed that as of mid-2025, approximately 3.45 billion people used Google Chrome, making it the most popular web browser globally with a market share of about 67 per cent across all devices.
  
Statcounter shows that Chrome holds a market share of approximately 65.25 per cent for all browsers in Nigeria.
  
Similarwed claimed an even higher share, with Chrome at 71.5 per cent in Nigeria by July 2025.
  
Other popular browsers in the country include Opera, Safari and Firefox, but they all trail significantly behind Chrome in market share.  
  
A Perplexity spokesperson confirmed to CNN the details of the offer, which The Wall Street Journal first reported.