Facebook is quietly building a voice-controlled AI assistant like Amazon Alexa (FB, GOOG, AMZN, AAPL)

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• Facebook is building a voice-controlled AI assistant.
• It will take on Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and the Google Assistant.
• CNBC reported on Wednesday that the California social network was quietly working on the project.

Facebook Inc is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com Inc's Alexa, Apple Inc's Siri and Alphabet Inc's Google Assistant.

"We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and future products," a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters in an e-mailed response on Wednesday.

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