Sociable: Meta is developing a search engine to power its AI chatbot

"When Meta first announced its Meta AI chatbot in September last year, it explained how it would be using web search results from Bing to help expand its responses: 'In text-based chats, Meta AI has access to real-time information through our search partnership with Bing and offers a tool for image generation.'"

"As Meta Platforms tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine that crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot."

"Conceptually, this would give Meta an alternative, in case Microsoft or Google, both of whom are competing with Meta on generative AI development, decided to end their search deals."

"Meta already has various web crawlers that gather information from external websites, and those crawlers have been ramping up activity in recent months, as Meta looks to gather more data for its AI projects."

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