Meta Platform is working on an artificial intelligence-based search engine as it looks to reduce dependency Alphabet’s Google And Microsoft’s BingThe reported that monday.
AI search engine segment is heating up rapidly ChatGPT-Producer OpenAIGoogle and Microsoft are all competing for dominance in a rapidly growing market.
Meta’s web crawler will provide users with responses to conversations about current events on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook on the company’s chatbot Meta AI, according to the report, which cited a person familiar with the strategy.
Facebook-owner currently relies on Google and Bing search engines to provide users with answers on news, stocks and sports.
Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Google is aggressively integrating its latest and most powerful AI model, Gemini, into core products like Search, aiming to provide a more conversational and intuitive search experience.
OpenAI depends on its largest investor, Microsoft, for web access to answer topical questions using its Bing search engine.
However, scraping web data to train AI models and search engines has raised concerns about copyright infringement and fair compensation for content creators.
Meta said last week that its AI chatbot would use Reuters content to answer user questions in real time about news and current events.
