By USA Goldmines 
Perplexity’s CEO has revealed that the AI firm has been asked to testify in the Department of Justice’s remedies phase in the Google antitrust case. The firm argued that the core issue isn’t Chrome’s market share but the restrictive environment around Android and Google’s suite of apps.
The U.S. government ruled last August that Google illegally exercised monopoly powers by controlling which Android apps to use. The Justice Department, together with attorneys general of several states and the Commonwealth of Virginia, also filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google in January 2023 for monopolizing key digital advertising technologies, referred to as the “ad tech stack.”
DOJ asks Perplexity to testify in Google antitrust case
This week, Google returns to court to determine the remedy for its antitrust violations.
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Perplexity AI has urged a U.S. court to reject sweeping structural penalties in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google. The firm instead called for measures that prioritize consumer choice.
Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google had unlawfully maintained its dominance via exclusive contracts with Apple, Samsung, and others. The DOJ noted that it is seeking structural reforms, including removing Google’s Chrome browser, limiting its AI product deals, and banning exclusivity in default app agreements. The department’s attorney, David Dahlquist, mentioned in court Monday that “now is the time to tell Google and all other monopolists… that there are consequences when you break the antitrust laws.”
The AI company has maintained that the core issue isn’t Chrome’s market share but the restrictive environment around Android and Google’s choice of apps. The firm’s CEO argued that “Android should become more open to consumer choice.”
“The remedy that is right in our opinion is not a breakup of Google; but rather offering consumers the choice to pick their defaults on Android without feeling the risk of a loss in revenue. That’s what we will be proposing.”
–Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI.
Srinivas added that Perplexity doesn’t believe anyone else can run a browser at Google’s scale “without a hit on quality,” pushing back on the DOJ’s proposal to force the tech firm to sell its Chrome browser. He noted that “Google should not be broken” and that Chrome should remain within and continue to run by Google.
He also acknowledged that Perplexity had been asked to testify in the Department of Justice’s remedies phase of Google’s antitrust case.
Perplexity’s CEO wants independent choices for OEMs and consumers
Srinivas said there shouldn’t be a tight coupling to the default apps set by Google and the permission for OEMs to have Google apps. He added that consumers should also have the choice to pick who they want as a default search and default voice assistant.
Perplexity argued that Google’s vast financial resources allow it to stay dominant by simply paying to force a subpar experience on consumers rather than building better products. The firm’s CEO believes that OEMs feel threatened by any changes because of the magnitude of revenue sharing offered to them by Google to preserve the status quo, even when better alternatives are available.
The tech company’s remedies phase follows a Virginia federal judge’s ruling that Google had also violated antitrust laws in the digital advertising market. The ruling marked the second time in under a year that a U.S. court has found the company to be acting as an illegal monopolist.
Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on April 17 that Google exploited its dominance in ad tech to inflate profits and suppress rivals. The court also argued that Google “harmed Google’s publishing customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web.”
Attorney General Pamela Bondi noted that the Department of Justice will continue taking bold legal action to protect the American people from encroachments on free speech and free markets by tech companies. Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division stated that the court’s ruling was clear: “Google is a monopolist and has abused its monopoly power.”
Slater also argued that Google’s unlawful dominance allows it to censor and even de-platform American voices. She added that the ruling showed that the tech firm destroyed and hid information that exposed its illegal conduct over the years.
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