Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
THE SO WHAT
If Airbnb is skipping off‑the‑shelf LLM partnerships to build an internal lab, the travel marketplace is about to treat AI as core product surface, not a bolt‑on feature. Any consumer platform with dense supply–demand matching that isn’t doing the same is about to feel behind on personalization, search, and trust tooling.
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