Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas, Who Once Made $30 Billion-plus Offer To Buy Google Chrome Browser, Now Says: Google Search Does A Much Better Job Than Anyone Else In The World | - The Times Of India

By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-03-19 08:39:00

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who once offered $34.5 billion for Google Chrome, now defaults Google search on his company’s Comet iOS browser. He acknowledges Google’s superiority for everyday navigational queries, while Comet aims to enhance answer quality and multimodal capabilities. This pragmatic approach positions Comet as a complementary tool, not a direct competitor, to Google.

Last August, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote a letter to Sundar Pichai offering $34.5 billion for Google‘s Chrome browser—a figure that was nearly double Perplexity’s own valuation at the time. Seven months later, on the same day his company launched the iPhone version of its Comet browser, Srinivas posted something that cuts right against the narrative of an all-out war with Google: on Comet iOS, Google is the default search engine. And he’s not apologetic about it.“Google does a much better job here than anyone else in the world, including Perplexity,” Srinivas wrote on X, specifically…

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