Meta has its own search engine powered by AI in the oven
Search engines powered by AI are on the crest of the wave and threaten to dethrone the almighty Google, which is in any case also integrating fashionable technology into its famous search engine. Meta also apparently wants to venture into the booming market of search engines powered by AIwhich would like to reduce its dependence on Google and Microsoft, according to publications The Information.
The search engine that the Facebook and Instagram parent company would be working on would be capable of generating summaries of current events based on the queries posed by the user to the Meta AI chatbot.
It’s a chatbotwhich is already embedded in Facebook and Instagram, It is currently supported by technology from Google and Microsoft Bing to answer questions about current news and recent events.
However, Meta’s alliance with Google and Microsoft in the search field could be about to be broken upsince a spider from the company led by Mark Zuckerberg would have been spotted crawling the network of networks a few months ago.
The market for search engines powered by AI is increasingly crowded
According to The Information, A Meta team had been working for around 8 months on building a database to feed their chatbot with information.. The company has also created a database with location data that could compete head-to-head with Google Maps. and last month Bloomberg reported Apple’s intention to also jump into the search pool (which would imply its “divorce” from Google).
Besides, Last week Meta announced that it had reached a multi-year agreement with Reuters so that its AI chatbot could access the famous news agency’s articles in order to appropriately respond to the user’s questions.
OpenAI, the parent company of the ubiquitous ChatGPT, also intends to try its luck in the search universesy has confirmed that it is working on a search engine powered by AI and named SearchGPT.
In the area of searches (spurred by AI) Perplexity AI is also developing, whose search engine has been the subject of a much-vaunted lawsuit by News Corp for illegally sourcing content from The Wall Street Journal y The New York Postand also faces legal threats from other publishers, including The New York Times.
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