Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said he didn’t want to testify in a trial about how to resolve Google’s search monopoly because he feared retribution from Google. But after being subpoenaed to appear in court, he seized the moment to pitch a business opportunity for his AI company: buying Chrome.

A US federal judge ruled in August that Google has created and maintained an illegal monopoly on online search. This week, Google was back in court for a remedies trial in that case, to determine what the consequences will be should Google's appeal of that August ruling fail.

Google's been under the antitrust microscope for a while now, especially after last year's court ruling finding it holds a monopoly in online search. While the final outcome is far from certain, the Justice Department threw a major curveball last month by suggesting Google might need to sell off the Chrome browser as part