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.

Perplexity on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, although one analyst firm estimates the price at about $100 billion.