A judge will soon decide if Google must sell Chrome to remedy its antitrust case. Competitors like Perplexity have already expressed interest.

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 is offering to buy Google’s Chrome, as the tech giant faces uncertainty from an antitrust ruling that could force a sale of the browser.