According to a report by CNBC has Perplexity AI has made an offer to merger with TikTok US to merge with TikTok US.
TikTok faces a possible ban in the USAif the connection to the Chinese parent company ByteDance is not cut.
Although Donald Trumpthe President-elect, stated on Saturday that he would probably grant the short video platform a reprieve of 90 days the situation remains tense.
According to the report, one of Perplexity proposed restructuring could allow most of the existing ByteDance-investors to retain their shares.
At the same time, the merger of Perplexity would give the platform more content.
Neither Perplexity AI nor TikTok immediately responded to requests for comment.
Perplexity AI is optimistic that its proposal could succeed because it is a merger and not a sale, according to the report.
The search technology of Perplexity AI enables users to get precise answers with sources.
The platform is supported by large language modelsincluding solutions from OpenAI $MSFT (+1,38%) and the open source model Llama from Meta Platforms $META (+1%).
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