AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant in antitrust proceedings.

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

Perplexity AI has made a $34.5 billion cash offer to buy Chrome from Alphabet's Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, as U.S. regulators press a landmark antitrust case that may compel the search giant to sell the browser.