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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google

For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social's AI search with their logo front and centre

Remember your browser choices aren't that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

We can buy anything with any amount of money.

Startups in 2025.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I wonder how they intend to get 34 billion back from their investment?

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pumping that bubble some more.

[–] fuckyoukeith@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s bizarre to see how many people and companies don’t see a bubble, it seems so clear to me that yeah, machine learning will continue, but this current iteration isn’t something that people respond well to

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't something that you don't respond to, sure. And here in social media you're surrounded by like-minded people. But perhaps AI is more popular with the general public than you think?

[–] danzabia@infosec.pub -1 points 3 months ago

I love that the Lemmy crowd thinks people don't like LLMs.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet