Wasn't it primarily acqui-hire? Meta's AI strategy is what exactly? The best time for them to release a Chat GPT clone was 2 years ago. The second best time is today.
They have a ChatGPT clone app already, but it's not very good.
I tried asking it some technical questions that Gemini can handle just fine, and it quickly started giving false information and contradictions.
My guess is data collection. Maybe the data can be used to improve or train agents.