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 choice for millions of users due to execution quality, he said. "Chrome has rightly earned its dominant position in the market because it has been (emphasis on has-been) a superior product."
Srinivas wrote in a separate social media post that nobody else can run a browser at that scale of Chrome without a hit on quality, nor has the business model to serve that many users profitably by keeping the browser free.
The hearing seeks to end Google's dominance over the internet. Allowing consumers to choose can remedy this, instead of breaking up the company, the Perplexity AI CEO said.
Google has been charged with paying enormous amounts of money to Samsung to preload Gemini as the default AI app on its devices. One of the considerations the justice department has proposed is stopping Google from paying for exclusive positions on other services and devices.
"To be clear, the risk for America isn’t that Google is too dominant. It’s when any company uses their dominance to limit consumer choice, especially when better options already exist," he wrote in the blog.
In the social media post, Srinivas suggested offering consumers the choice to pick their defaults on Android "without feeling the risk of a loss in revenue".
The hearing, which started on April 21, will continue for three weeks. Judgement in the matter is likely to be pronounced by US district judge Amit Mehta in August later this year.
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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 choice for millions of users due to execution quality, he said. "Chrome has rightly earned its dominant position in the market because it has been (emphasis on has-been) a superior product."
Srinivas wrote in a separate social media post that nobody else can run a browser at that scale of Chrome without a hit on quality, nor has the business model to serve that many users profitably by keeping the browser free.
The hearing seeks to end Google's dominance over the internet. Allowing consumers to choose can remedy this, instead of breaking up the company, the Perplexity AI CEO said.
Google has been charged with paying enormous amounts of money to Samsung to preload Gemini as the default AI app on its devices. One of the considerations the justice department has proposed is stopping Google from paying for exclusive positions on other services and devices.
"To be clear, the risk for America isn’t that Google is too dominant. It’s when any company uses their dominance to limit consumer choice, especially when better options already exist," he wrote in the blog.
In the social media post, Srinivas suggested offering consumers the choice to pick their defaults on Android "without feeling the risk of a loss in revenue".
The hearing, which started on April 21, will continue for three weeks. Judgement in the matter is likely to be pronounced by US district judge Amit Mehta in August later this year.
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