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Al Etihad
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- Al Etihad
AI startup Perplexity makes $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser
12 Aug 2025 23:35 (AGENCIES)AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant in antitrust unsolicited bid was sent to Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Tuesday morning, a Perplexity spokesperson comes not long after rival artificial intelligence startup OpenAI also expressed interest in acquiring Chrome, which together with the open-source Chromium software is the main way people access the web on a federal judge found last year that Google has an illegal monopoly in internet search, the US government has said it wants Google to sell the Chrome browser and license search data to competitors, among other proposed changes. US District Judge Amit Mehta, who heard the case, is expected to issue a ruling in the coming days, with remedies to prevent the company from monopolising the online search Francisco-based startup Perplexity, which has sought to woo users from Google by offering search powered by AI, earlier this year raised $100 million in a round of funding that valued it at $18 billion, Bloomberg News reported. That raises the question of how Perplexity could afford to follow through on its Chrome offer."Multiple large investment funds have agreed to finance the transaction in full,' Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko isn't the first time Perplexity has made an offer for a major internet property ahead of a forced transition. Earlier this year, the company also submitted a bid to TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd., to merge with its US operations and create a new entity. TikTok is facing a US ban without a field of web browsers has seen renewed interest as AI companies seek to build agents that can complete online shopping and other tasks for users. Perplexity has said it is preparing to release a browser called Comet that features an AI company added that it would not make any "stealth modifications' to Chrome. "This is part of our commitment to continuity and choice for users, and will likely be seen as having the benefit of stability for Google and its many advertisers,' the spokesperson wrote. If the bid is accepted and a deal is approved, Perplexity said it would invest $3 billion over the next two years in Chrome and Chromium and "extend offers to a substantial portion of Chrome talent.' The company added that its offer to Google did not include any equity in Perplexity - to avoid any antitrust concerns.
Gulf Today
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- Gulf Today
AI startup Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion
Perplexity AI said it has made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet's Chrome browser, a low but bold bid that would need financing well above the startup's own valuation. Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers - it made a similar one for TikTok US in January, offering to merge with the popular short-video app to resolve U.S. concerns about TikTok's Chinese ownership. Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser's more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race as regulatory pressure threatens Google's grip on the industry. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The company has not offered Chrome for sale and plans to appeal a US court ruling last year that found it held an unlawful monopoly in online search. The Justice Department has sought a Chrome divestiture as part of the case's remedies. Perplexity did not disclose on Tuesday how it plans to fund the offer. The three-year-old company has raised around $1 billion in funding so far from investors including Nvidia and Japan's SoftBank. It was last valued at $14 billion. Multiple funds have offered to finance the deal in full, a person familiar with the matter said, without naming the funds. As a new generation of users turns to chatbots such as ChatGPT and Perplexity for answers, web browsers are regaining prominence as vital gateways to search traffic and prized user data, making them central to Big Tech's AI ambitions. Perplexity already has an AI browser, Comet, that can perform certain tasks on a user's behalf and acquiring Chrome would give it the heft to better compete against bigger rivals such as OpenAI. The ChatGPT parent has also expressed interest in buying Chrome and is working on its own AI browser. Perplexity's bid pledges to keep the underlying browser code called Chromium open source, invest $3 billion over two years and make no changes to Chrome's default search engine, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters. The company said the offer, with no equity component, would preserve user choice and ease future competition concerns. Analysts have said Google would be unlikely to sell Chrome and would likely engage in a long legal fight to prevent that outcome, given it is crucial to the company's AI push as it rolls out features including AI-generated search summaries, known as Overviews, to help defend its search market share. A federal judge is expected to issue a ruling on remedies in the Google search antitrust case sometime this month. Perplexity's bid is also below the at least $50 billion value that rival search engine DuckDuckGo's CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, suggested Chrome may command if Google was forced to sell it. Besides OpenAI and Perplexity, Yahoo and private-equity firm Apollo Global Management have also expressed interest in Chrome. Reuters
The National
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- The National
Trump says Nvidia's H20 is 'obsolete', yet there are worries about selling the GPU to China
US President Donald Trump explained his decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H20 graphics processing unit (GPU) to China on Monday by describing it as obsolete. More specifically, Mr Trump was asked about making a deal with Nvidia for the US government to receive a 15 per cent cut of sales to Beijing. 'I deal with Jensen [Huang], who is a great guy,' Mr Trump said, referring to Nvidia's chief executive and founder. 'The chip that we're talking about, the H20, it's an old chip and China already has it … but it's obsolete and it still has a market.' That begs the question, however, why there is so much demand from China for the H20, and why some elected officials and analysts are so concerned that Mr Trump will allow the chip to be sold to the country. By most standards, Mr Trump's description of the H20 as obsolete is incorrect – to describe a technology, particularly a piece of hardware like the H20 GPU, as obsolete is to imply that it's no longer supported by the tech world, making it completely impractical to use within an existing technology ecosystem. That's not the case with the H20, which was designed several years ago by Nvidia to comply with US regulations seeking to prevent powerful AI technologies from being used by countries it views as adversaries. In recent weeks, a group of Democratic senators sent a letter to White House officials criticising the move to allow the resumption of H20 sales to China, claiming that because of the GPU's improved power-efficiency and high-bandwidth memory chips, 'many PRC [People's Republic of China] firms reportedly prefer the H20 to other controlled chips'. That's hardly an indication a GPU design is obsolete. Late in July, in response to The National's inquires about concerns about the H20 being sold in China, Nvidia did not exactly describe the GPU as obsolete either. 'The H20 helps America win the support of developers worldwide, promoting America's economic and national security,' the statement read, emphasising the chip's deliberately modest attributes. 'It does not enhance anyone's military capabilities, and the US government has full visibility and authority over every H20 transactions.' Some Republicans have also described Nvidia's H20 as still relevant. Representative John Moolenaar, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, recently opposed resuming exports of the H20 to China. 'The H20 is a stark improvement over what the Chinese can indigenously produce at scale,' he said during a speech at Purdue University's Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy. 'When, not if, these chips are diverted to [China's] People's Liberation Army supercomputer, they will substantially upgrade their ability to run advanced AI models.' H20 paranoia abounds Regardless of whether or not one considers the H20 to be obsolete, there is a tremendous amount of speculation surrounding the chip, with some of the paranoia coming from China, where there is demand for it. This month, Nvidia sought to debunk reports that claimed some of its chips had a backdoor kill switch, to blunt any misuse that might compromise national security. Some members of the US Congress have even sought to make it mandatory for certain chips to contain kill switches. 'Nvidia GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors,' a blog post from the company read. 'No kill switches, and no spyware … that's not how trustworthy systems are built – and never will be.' Despite those assurances, however, recent reports have indicated China still has concerns. According to Bloomberg, Chinese officials are telling various companies within the country to not use Nvidia's H20 over fears that the chips might be compromised and vulnerable to being exploited. The Chinese embassy in Washington has not yet responded to The National's requests for comment. Trump praises Nvidia's Blackwell architecture Despite ample conjecture about the H20 coupled with the varying opinions about Nvidia's sales of it to China, during Mr Trump's news conference on Monday, he made clear that the company's other GPU offerings would likely not be exported to China anytime soon, at least not without a few changes. Mr Trump said Nvidia's highly touted Blackwell GPUs would need to be toned down before he would consider allowing them to be sold in China. 'It's super-duper advanced and I wouldn't make a deal with that,' he said, before quickly giving himself some wiggle room. 'Although it's possible that I would make a deal if they enhanced it in a negative way.' Mr Trump said based on his conversations with Mr Huang, he's impressed with the Blackwell platform, adding that in terms of processing power, none of Nvidia's competitors have it, 'and they probably won't for five years'. As for the 15 per cent cut that the Trump White House wants for the H20 sales to China, on Tuesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said similar approaches might be applied to other companies and products, although she said specifics were still being worked out by the Department of Commerce. Some have questioned the constitutionality of the move, referring to it as a "reverse tariff".
