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PerPlexity AI has revised a merger proposal submitted to Tiktok’s parent company byte dance on Sunday. This proposal established a new company that integrates PerPlexity and Tiktok US, and CNBC has revealed that it will be possible for the US government to own up to 50 % of the new company’s shares in the future. 。
CNBC’s proposal was shared with byte dance and new investor candidates, and was detailed about the establishment of a new US holding company, NEWCO.
The document suggests Bytedance to contribute to the Tiktok US, except for the core recommended algorithm, instead of receiving a new company’s shares. Perplexity AI will give itself in exchange for his investor to distribute NEWCO shares.
According to the proposed documents, the merger funds are raised by “new third -party capital providers (mutual agreement)” and “pay a limited dividend to the byte dance investors in exchange for simplification.” The funds will be provided. Realizes “Governance” and supports new organizations.
Perplexity AI is a startup of artificial intelligence search engines competing with Openai. GoogleIn 2024, it began with an evaluation of about $ 500 million, increasing the interest of investors in the generated AI boom, and reached the end of the year with an evaluation of about $ 9 billion after about 9 billion dollars. Investors consider AI support search as one of Google’s major risks, as consumers can change the way consumers access information online.
Openai, which created an AI boom in Chatgpt in late 2022, introduced a search engine called SearchGpt last year. Google later started “AIOVERVIEWS” in search so that users can show a simple answer at the top of the results.
With the new structure proposed, most of the existing investors of the byte dance can hold stocks, and if more videos will be provided to Perpa Prexity, officials familiar with the situation will be CNBC earlier this month. I talked to. And bytedance, it publicly suggests not selling Tiktok US, but it is part of the reason we believe that Perplexity AI may be an acquisition -because this transaction is merged instead of the sale. The stakeholders added that they would be.
According to officials, the revised proposal states that if the IPO of at least $ 300 billion is performed, the U.S. government can own up to half of the new organization.
According to the newspaper, the appropriate price is “far exceeding $ 50 billion,” but the final number attached to the proposal is which shareholders who want to remain in part of the new company of the part -time dancing shareholders. It is said that it is partially determined by which shareholders want to cash. sauce.
The potential transactions between Perplexity AI and bytedance are likely to take several months to complete, but President Donald Trump has temporarily revived Tiktok in the United States, and has stakeholders in the United States. Signed the company to acquire the company and then sell 50 % of the shares to the United States. government. “President Trump will cooperate with us to find a solution to keep using Tiktok in the United States in the United States, in a video posted on Tiktok earlier this month. I would like to thank the commitment. “
Perplexity is one of multiple companies and individuals fighting for the acquisition or merger of TikTok, and it is said that the following companies and individuals are included. Microsoft,, Oracle And potentially Ellon Musk. On Saturday, President Trump said that it would be more likely to make a decision on the future of apps in the United States within the next 30 days.
