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There's been speculation for years about whether Airbnb would launch flights. Such small-minded speculation: Airbnb intends to use specialized AI agents to do every travel vertical. Airbnb Cruise, anyone?
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company plans to develop specialized AI agents for integrations with numerous partners to handle bookings for "every vertical in travel" in the Airbnb app.
Chesky said partnerships are a key opportunity for Airbnb, which grew for many years mostly organically without such collaborations.
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