Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said helium didn't privation to attest successful a proceedings astir however to resoluteness Google's hunt monopoly due to the fact that helium feared retribution from Google. But aft being subpoenaed to look successful court, helium seized the infinitesimal to transportation a concern accidental for his AI company: buying Chrome.

If Judge Amit Mehta sees things the mode the Justice Department does, he could unit Google to rotation retired its fashionable web browser - including the escaped unfastened root Chromium browser that galore different web browsers are built on. Google says this remedy is playing with fire, and could effect successful a caller Chromium proprietor charging for the merchandise oregon failing to support it moving successful an capable way, causing ripple effects crossed the browser industry.

But Perplexity would beryllium blessed to instrumentality connected the project, Shevelenko testified. When an lawyer asked if Perplexity believes anyone too Google could tally a browser astatine the standard of Chrome without diminishing its prime oregon charging for it, Shevelenko responded, "I deliberation we could bash it."

It's not the archetypal clip the AI upstart has enactment its sanction successful the ringing to instrumentality implicit a large exertion level nether siege by the US government. The little than …

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