Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
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Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.
The vast majority of people will keep using whatever they are already used to unless there’s egregious changes that impact their workflows. Even then they might not move.
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they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet
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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
Oh that’s awful. I’m non-U.S. and didn’t know.
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It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet
I was being facetious
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they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
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I was being facetious
my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
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Good play to suck up data. I wonder if OpenAI, Palantir and others will bid too. Might be brilliant for Nvidia.
Palantir buying Chrome would be so cyberpunk it hurts.
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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?
I love that the Lemmy crowd thinks people don't like LLMs.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.
Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.
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Hmm I wonder how they intend to get 34 billion back from their investment?
You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.
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You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.
I think he's being sarcastic.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
Ai needs data, you’re going to see more of this happening.
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Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.
People haven't left yet and it's already a data collecting beast. And blocks ad blockers. And so on.
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they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
But they wouldn't have the user base, and therefore their data.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
We can buy anything with any amount of money.
Startups in 2025.
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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
Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.
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Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.
Mozilla is in a death spiral.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
Good thing I haven't used Chrome in so long.
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We can buy anything with any amount of money.
Startups in 2025.
I will never cease to be amazed at how ungodly much cash startups often have.
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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
Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There's no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.
Financially it's a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.
