To remain competitive in AI development, Meta is reportedly developing its own search engine; the move, reported by The Information, is intended to reduce its reliance on Google and Microsoft's Bing, which currently provide news, sports, and stocks to Meta's AI. According to a Meta insider, the initiative could serve as a backup in the event of a change in partnerships with the tech giants. Led by senior engineering manager Xueyuan Su, Meta has spent the last year quietly evolving its web crawling and indexing technology by collecting web data and organizing it into a searchable index. The ultimate goal is to allow Meta AI to independently provide live, conversational answers to user questions without relying on outside search platforms Meta recently partnered with Reuters to enhance Meta AI's answers to topical queries, and to further expanding its reach. This multi-faceted approach to minimizing reliance on competitors is the work of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has previously expressed concern about Meta's reliance on other major companies. Meta's AI chatbot is currently used by 185 million users each week, a figure that is firmly established within social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, although it still falls short of OpenAI's ChatGPT. underscores Meta AI's broad audience appeal.

As more and more people turn to AI tools like ChatGPT for quick, conversational answers, Meta is developing AI solutions within its own ecosystem and integrating chatbots across its social platforms to adapt to user behavior The goal is to create an AI solution that can be used to adapt to user behavior by integrating chatbots across social platforms. The goal is to keep users engaged while laying the foundation for more advanced AI capabilities in the future.