Artificial intelligence firm Perplexity has made a bold unsolicited offer of $34.5 billion to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. This move comes amid ongoing antitrust pressures on Google to divest assets, including the recommendation from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for selling off Chrome. The DOJ argues that such a sale would create a fairer playing field by ending Google’s dominant hold on internet gateways. 2025 marks Perplexity’s ambitious attempt to further solidify its position in the generative AI market. Having recently developed its own AI-powered browser, Comet, and competed against giants like Meta and OpenAI, Perplexity is looking to capitalize on an acquisition that would dramatically reshape the online browsing landscape.