ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/perplexity-ai” target=”_blank”>Perplexity AI asked TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/bytedance” target=”_blank”>ByteDance, on Saturday to allow the U.S. search engine startup to merge with ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/tiktok” target=”_blank”>TikTok U.S. and create a new entity combining them and New Capital Partners, CNBC reported.
TikTok faces a ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/u-s-ban” target=”_blank”>U.S. ban starting on Sunday if it does not cut ties with ByteDance, although President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he would likely give the short-video ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/social-media-platform” target=”_blank”>social-media platform a 90-day reprieve on Monday.
The new structure proposed by Perplexity would allow for most of ByteDance’s existing investors to retain…
