The president indicated earlier this month that he would be willing to extend that deadline.
Perplexity is throwing its hat in the ring as Trump gets actively involved in brokering a deal, with Oracle favored as a likely buyer in an arrangement that would still reserve a potential role for ByteDance.
“Any acquisition by a consortium of investors could in effect keep ByteDance in control of the algorithm, while any acquisition by a competitor would likely create a monopoly in the short-form video and information space,” Perplexity wrote. “All of society benefits when content feeds are liberated from the manipulations of foreign governments and globalist monopolists.”