Meta Platforms is reportedly developing an AI-based search engine to reduce its reliance on Google and Microsoft’s Bing. This AI-driven search engine will fuel Meta’s chatbot, Meta AI, across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, offering conversational answers on current events.
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Currently, Meta relies on Google and Bing for similar queries, especially around news, stocks, and sports. With tech giants like Google and Microsoft, as well as OpenAI, intensifying efforts in AI search, Meta’s entry marks a competitive move in this space. However, data scraping to train such models has sparked concerns over copyright and compensation for content creators.