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Meta Takeover Of Stilla.ai Could Deepen Its Lead In Agentic AI!

Meta has added another piece to its rapidly expanding AI strategy with the acquisition of Swedish startup Stilla.ai, a young company founded in 2024 that raised $5 million in pre-seed funding earlier this year. According to the reported transaction, Stilla’s team and technology will join Meta and support the development of Meta Business Agent, which is designed to help businesses interact with customers and facilitate transactions across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. The deal comes as Meta is broadening AI beyond advertising and content recommendations into personal agents, enterprise tools, model APIs and business automation. During its Q2 2026 earnings call, management said Meta Business Agents were already being used by more than one million businesses each week, while WhatsApp had become a major surface for engagement with Meta AI. Meta is therefore acquiring Stilla at a point when agentic commerce is moving from experimentation toward a potentially broader commercial platform.