In fact, the AI search engine segment is heating up as OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT), Google, and Microsoft are all vying to dominate this rapidly growing market.
Meta's website crawler will reportedly provide conversational responses to users about events on Meta AI, the company's chatbot on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
Currently, Meta relies on Google and Bing search engines to provide users with answers about news, stocks, and sports.
Google is also actively integrating its latest and more powerful AI model, Gemini, into core products like Search, with the aim of making the search experience more intuitive and conversational.
Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on its biggest investor, Microsoft, for access to the website to answer topical queries, using the Bing search engine.
However, the practice of collecting website data to train AI models and search engines has raised concerns about copyright infringement and fair compensation for content creators.
Previously, Meta representative said that their AI chatbot will use content from the world's largest international news agency - Reuters to answer users' questions in real time about news and current events.
