The Department of Justice wants Google to be forced to sell Chrome. One industry rival valued it at upwards of $50 billion.

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.

AI startup Perplexity on Tuesday offered $34.5 billion to buy Google's Chrome browser, positioning itself to challenge the tech giant's dominance in web search. The bid is nearly double Perplexity’s valuation at reportedly $18 billion.