Perplexity以345億美元要約收購Chrome瀏覽器 搶跑谷歌反壟斷案裁決
Perplexity的一位發言人表示，這一主動要約於周二上午發送給了Alphabet旗下的谷歌。不久前，其競爭對手、人工智能初創公司OpenAI也表達了收購Chrome的興趣。Chrome與開源的Chromium軟件是人們在個人電腦上訪問互聯網的主要方式。
去年，一名聯邦法官裁定谷歌在互聯網搜索領域擁有非法壟斷地位後，美國政府提出了希望谷歌出售Chrome瀏覽器、向競爭對手開放搜索數據授權等諸多擬議的調整。審理此案的美國地方法官Amit Mehta預計將在未來幾天內作出裁決，並提出防止該公司壟斷線上搜索市場的補救措施。
總部位於舊金山的初創公司Perplexity希望通過提供基於人工智能的搜索服務吸引谷歌的用戶，彭博新聞報導稱，該公司今年早些時候在一輪融資中籌集了1億美元，對公司的估值為180億美元。這引發了外界對於Perplexity如何能夠按照要約承擔Chrome收購成本的疑問。
「多家大型投資基金已同意全額資助此次交易，」Perplexity首席商務官Dmitry Shevelenko表示。
原文標題Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google's Chrome Browser
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