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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Hmm I wonder how they intend to get 34 billion back from their investment?

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Pumping that bubble some more.

[-] fuckyoukeith@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] danzabia@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago
[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Everyone else’s but theirs.

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago
[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

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.

[-] CapnClenchJaw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

How... perplexing!

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good play to suck up data. I wonder if OpenAI, Palantir and others will bid too. Might be brilliant for Nvidia.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Palantir buying Chrome would be so cyberpunk it hurts.

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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.

Never underestimate people’s stubbornness to stick with enshittified platforms.

[-] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

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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