Asia Tech Wire (Oct 29) -- Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a search engine, in an attempt to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, according to The Information.

The search engine crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to users who use Meta's AI chatbot, according to the report.

In this way, Meta hopes to reduce its reliance on Google Search and Microsoft Bing, according to a person who has spoken to the search engine team.

Currently, Google and Microsoft provide information on news, sports and stocks to Meta AI users.