They don’t want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that’s assuming they’d be successful enough to make it happen.
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pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Are these fucks stupid? Chromium is open sourced. They can do it themselves
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 11 months ago
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There is no way Google would sell Chrome. But you can bet at least a thousand engineers are working on bolting Gemini onto it right now.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There’s no way Google would voluntarily sell Chrome. Unfortunately for them, they might be forced to sell Chrome.
Saleh@feddit.org 11 months ago
No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.
RickC137@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Existing userbase
TON618@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like to think if people want whatever it is OpenAI thinks browsers need AI for, the userbase will manifest itself.
MITM0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Suuuuure