Amid US antitrust pressure on Google parent company Alphabet, Perplexity AI has offered $34.5 billion in cash deal to purchase the Google Chrome browser. This would instantly give Perplexity reach to more than three billion people.

According to data compiled by FirstPageSage, ChatGPT is the most widely used chatbot -- boasting an estimated 60% market share -- while Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini each hold about 14% market share. Perplexity ranks fourth with about half the market presence of Copilot and Gemini.

Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet's Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser's billions of users pivotal to the AI search race.