Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

Making a new browser is easy.

Then why doesn't anyone else do it? We have only 3 real browsers.

I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?

Turning the most popular browser further into an AI hellscape.

Influencing how every other browser (minus Firefox's minuscule marketshare) functions via the engine.

On the other hand, no longer under googles control.

In order to better understand the user, their prompts, etc and to be able to fully modify websites, these AIs need access to the DOM.

This is made much more easier if you integrate your AI to a browser.

So, in theory, the AI could understand what your are currently researching, profile your interest, and provide you answers before you even made a prompt.