‘Don’t break Google’: Perplexity AI CEO offers alternative ahead of antitrust testimony

Perplexity AI and OpenAI have been asked to testify in the historic antitrust case against Google over its search monopoly. Witnesses from both AI companies will tell a Washington judge how Google’s monopoly on web search affects their business. The proceedings can end with the Chrome browser being carved out of Google, and the internet major forced to license precious user data to competitors.

Ahead of the testimony, however, Perplexity AI’s cofounder and CEO, Aravind Srinivas, said that Google should not be broken up. Chrome became the browser of…