Perplexity, the US-based artificial intelligence start-up challenging Google's search supremacy, has made its boldest move yet.Its unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser follows last week's announcement that San Francisco-based Perplexity teamed up with the Trump Media and Technology Group for a public beta testing of an AI search feature called Truth Search AI.

California-based AI startup Perplexity offered over $34B to buy Google Chrome as it battles for industry dominance with bigger names like Meta and OpenAI.

Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Perplexity has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover offer for Google's Chrome internet browser. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety would benefit the public, Perplexity said in a letter to Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google's owner Alphabet.