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

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

with what money

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?

These AI companies know damned well it's a bubble, they're not stupid, they just can't risk missing out on being the next Microsoft or Google or FaceBook. It's the highest stakes gamble I've ever seen and there's so much money tied up that it will crash the US economy when it pops.

C levels want to ride the bubble and have their golden parachutes ready for when it pops. Then they can use their 'experience' as an excuse to have their connections prop them up again to ride the next bubble!

Everyone else’s but theirs.

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

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.

lol this number makes no sense. Minecraft was worth 4 billion a decade ago. Chrome is worth way more than 34

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.

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

Oh that’s awful. I’m non-U.S. and didn’t know.

I was being facetious

my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.

Palantir buying Chrome would be so cyberpunk it hurts.

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

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.

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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.

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.