The bid to own Google's Chrome browser might turn into a three-way contest. In an investor note following a Wall Street Journal report that Perplexity extended an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Chrome,

Google has received an offer from AI startup Perplexity for Chrome. The offer stands at $34.5 billion, twice what Perplexity is worth, but there's a problem as Chrome isn't actually for sale. We're not usually in the business of writing about potential buy outs,

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