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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

I wasn't trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

But they wouldn't have the user base, and therefore their data.