MG Siegler / Lingerie::
The unsolicited offer of 34.5 billion dollars of Perplexity for Chrome with the support of VC claimed is clearly a marketing cascade and a strategic signaling in the middle of the antitrust uncertainty of Google– Why not offer a quadrillion of dollars? … I will give a perplexity one thing: to offer the thirty-four billion dollars is a nice touch.
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