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Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity AI has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover bid for the world's most popular web browser, Google Chrome. The three-year-old firm, whose backers include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and chip maker Nvidia, is headed by a former Google and OpenAI employee.

In an unlikely bid that shows the growing brashness of young artificial intelligence companies, the A.I. start-up Perplexity has made an unsolicited offer to buy Google’s Chrome web browser for $34.5 billion.

It’s questionable that a startup with limited size and reach could afford to buy the world’s most popular web browser, but it’s not a bad way to posture. The AI search startup Perplexity has tendered an unsolicited offer to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.