Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is building its own artificial intelligence-powered search engine in order to reduce its dependence on answers from Google and Bing, The Information reported on Monday.
The company’s search engine will crawl “the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot,” according to the report.
Meta’s AI chatbot is built into the search and messaging features on its apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The chatbot currently displays search results from Google and Bing as part of its answers. Altogether, Meta’s apps have 3.27 billion users.