Brutkey

Ars Technica
@arstechnica@mastodon.social

Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google
Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/perplexity-offers-more-than-twice-its-total-valuation-to-buy-chrome-from-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺
@demi7en@infosec.exchange

@arstechnica@mastodon.social Who are (behind) "Perplexity" and why are they in this business?

(Isn't Chrome mostly open-source anyway; see: Chromium)

munkisquisher
@munkisquisher@mastodon.nz

@demi7en@infosec.exchange @arstechnica@mastodon.social they are typical ai bubble company, trying to shoehorn ai everywhere. Their main public product is a search engine with voice assistant. So trying to be Google, but without generating revenue yet

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺
@demi7en@infosec.exchange

@munkisquisher@mastodon.nz @arstechnica@mastodon.social Well, yeah, I was wondering about the who they are.

The techbro/VC posse tend to have interesting priorities these days.