Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
I offer $1000. That is probably higher than my evaluation. I would remove manifest V3 immediately.
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Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.
Yea, me too, I got a cheap pro subscription and use it often. It is a fast way to find info for me. But I guess behind the scenes they are tracking us in the worst possible way.
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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
The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.
Sorry I can’t find the link.
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with what money
You might as well ask with what money ANYTHING in ai is getting done right now, because none of it is profitable. It’s investor cash.
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my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
Il offer 35 billion considering the entire economy at this point is made up inflated bullshit.
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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
I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard API license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/
So I'm not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.
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Il offer 35 billion considering the entire economy at this point is made up inflated bullshit.
Fuck it, I'll chip in a couple of billion too.
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Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”
I wasn't trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time
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We can buy anything with any amount of money.
Startups in 2025.
