Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation.

In a surprise move, Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome, coming as a legal ruling is pending in an antitrust case the internet giant lost that could force it to divest the browser.

Look, I’m not sure even Perplexity thinks it’s actually going to get to buy Chrome. The money is one thing, but there’s a bigger reason, which is that Google has no reason t