Skift Take
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky originally predicted that a fully redeveloped app — with AI at the center — would already have been released. Now, he's saying it'll take years.
Brian Chesky said it will take years to rebuild Airbnb into a fully AI-powered application.
The long-term vision is that Airbnb will act as a digital travel concierge that learns and adapts to each individual user, Chesky explained during an earnings call this week.
“It's going to take a number of years to develop this,” Chesky said. “And so it won't be in the next year that this will happen.”
Last year, the Airbnb CEO told Skift CEO Rafat Ali the company would be “rebuilding the entire app with AI at the center” by May 2024.
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