Startup Perplexity AI made its second bid to buy TikTok, this time with a proposal to have the U.S. government own 50% of the platform. Lawmakers have long opposed TikTok’s algorithm since its parent company,

Perplexity AI search startup has a new proposal to merge with TikTok, which would give the US government a stake of up to 50%.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter.