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6 posts
2025-08-13
This is a really bad thing.  —  Pplx is a terrible company and I'll downgrade to Safari Tech Preview full time if this happens.  —  Rly hope the new render engine+browser shell projects speed-run to usable.  [embedded post]
2025-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal

Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam ...

This is a really bad thing.  —  Pplx is a terrible company and I'll downgrade to Safari Tech Preview full time if this happens.  —  Rly hope the new render engine+browser shell projects speed-run to usable.  [embedded post]
2025-08-13 View on X
Spyglass

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and maybe a signal to the judge in Google's antitrust case

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome  —  With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser …

2025-08-12
This is a really bad thing.  —  Pplx is a terrible company and I'll downgrade to Safari Tech Preview full time if this happens.  —  Rly hope the new render engine+browser shell projects speed-run to usable.  [embedded post]
2025-08-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal

and getting new tools for spending it at home Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion Bluesky: Jake / @jake.sooscreek.productions ...

2025-07-03
Perplexity has joined the $200/month commercial “AI” service club.  —  I suspect by Q4 what you get for $20/month across all the major players is going to get seriously downgraded, but the average user won't realize/care.  —  Local models are not keeping up, too.  —  Really hope the “AI” bubble bursts, soon.
2025-07-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like its Comet browser, and priority access to models like o3-pro

I suspect by Q4 what you get for $20/month across all the major players is going to get seriously downgraded, but the average user won't realize/care.  —  Local models are not keep...

2025-01-19
What is not being said in this bid: lots of sites—big ones—have been blocking pplx's crawler (& not just with [robots|  ai].txt).  This gets pplx bytespider, one of the most invasive & sprawling crawlers.  —  It gets them what they need most: data.  —  The TikTok content is 2ndary. …
2025-01-19 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok JV with 50% US ownership

President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,

What is not being said in this bid: lots of sites—big ones—have been blocking pplx's crawler (& not just with [robots|  ai].txt).  This gets pplx bytespider, one of the most invasive & sprawling crawlers.  —  It gets them what they need most: data.  —  The TikTok content is 2ndary. …
2025-01-19 View on X
CNBC

Source: Perplexity AI made a TikTok US bid to ByteDance, proposing a merger that brings video to Perplexity, with ByteDance investors retaining their stakes

Elon Musk, Kevin O'Leary And More—Could Buy TikTok As Ban Starts Taipei Times : Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok US Fortune : Perplexity said to submit bid to merge w...