He took the blow from the blow Apple privacy feature three years ago, Meta was reportedly trying to reduce its dependence on Google and Microsoft. Information he said Monday is developing a search engine for Meta chatbot. The company also recently In cooperation with Reuters to help AI answer questions about news.
Meta has reportedly been working on indexing the web for at least eight months. The company’s goal is reportedly to integrate indexes into Meta AI, giving the chatbot an alternative to Google Search and Microsoft Bing. Meta obviously announced this summer it made it clear that its web crawling technology was only for “training AI models or improving products,” saying it was building out its search backend. Senior engineering manager Xueyuan Su leads the search engine project.
Information says the move stems directly from dependence on other Big Tech companies that have “bitten” the company in the past. Apple App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Previously Meta he said The iPhone privacy feature introduced in 2021 will cost more than $10 billion in lost ad revenue. (He was very worried about this feature was sued for evasion its rules.)
I think CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to be as autonomous as possible if Google or Microsoft cut off access to web searches. It is currently unknown if Meta paid either company for this access.
Engadget has reached out to Meta for comment. We’ll update this story if we hear back.
The company’s investments in artificial intelligence are paying off. Zuckerberg wrote in Threads in August that Meta AI has more than 185 million weekly active users and more than 400 million monthly users. “It’s growing fast and we haven’t rolled out in the UK, Brazil or the EU yet,” the Facebook founder said. OpenAI said earlier this month that ChatGPT There were 250 million weekly users.
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