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Meta is reportedly developing a search engine for its chatbot
Meta, seeking to reduce reliance on Google and Microsoft, is reportedly developing a search engine for its chatbot. The company is also partnering with Reuters to help AI answer news-related queries.
The company’s goal is said to be to integrate the indexes into Meta AI, giving the chatbot an alternative to Google Search and Microsoft Bing. Meta publicly disclosed its web crawler tech this summer, only saying it was for “training AI models or improving products” without stating outright that it was building a search backend. The thinking is that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to be as autonomous as possible to avoid a repeat of that if Google or Microsoft were to cut off its access to web searches.
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