AI startup Perplexity made a formal offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, an audacious bid to get ahead of a potential requirement for the search giant to sell the web browser in antitrust proceedings.

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.