Meta Partners with Reuters and Develops AI Search Engine for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to Reduce Reliance on Google and Bing

Oct 28, 2024, 04:55 PM

Meta Platforms has entered into a multi-year agreement with Reuters to integrate its news content into the Meta AI chatbot, providing real-time answers to user queries across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. This partnership aims to enhance user experience and address misinformation concerns. Additionally, Meta is developing its own AI-powered search engine, led by engineering manager Xueyuan Su, to reduce reliance on Google and Microsoft’s Bing. This new search engine will crawl the web to provide conversational answers about current events, further enhancing Meta's AI capabilities and potentially reshaping the digital landscape.