How much is Chrome worth for Google? Perplexity AI says its worth $34.5 billion. We think that’s perplexing. Maybe it was a product of its own AI engine’s hallucination.

This is second big offer the AI startup has made this year to buy a major asset, after a bid for TikTok in January.

AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much. The San Francisco-based outfit told the Wall Street Journal that a gaggle of venture capitalists are ready to bankroll