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Airbnb hasacquireda secretive new AI startup , GamePlanner . AI , the troupe harbinger this morning . CNBCreportsthat the leverage price was around $ 200 million , a trope that TechCrunch was unable to confirm at publication time .
GamePlanner was co - set up by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat . Cheyer excellently help co - launch the inauguration Siri , which Apple acquired and whose technology became the basis for Apple ’s AI - powered Siri assistant . Hodjat antecedently worked with Cheyer at Viv Labs , a firm that Samsung bought and leveraged to set up its own AI assistant , Bixby , in 2017 .
It ’s not immediately clear what GamePlannerdoes . A LinkedInsearchonly twist up two associate : Gabe Greenbaum , a general partner at B Capital who sit down on GamePlanner ’s instrument panel of theater director , and Joseph Huang , head of design at GamePlanner . GamePlanner has n’t had a web bearing for some sentence ; the Internet Archive ’s earliestcacheof the website ( from December 2021 ) yields a white page .
But in a canned command , Airbnb CEO and co - father Brian Chesky suggest that the 12 - individual startup combines expertness in AI and design toward crafting AI - driven experiences , sort of like an AI - focussed consultancy .
“ AI will speedily alter our world more than any other engineering in our life , but we need to ensure that it augment humanity in a positive room , ” Chesky say , contribute that the GamePlanner squad will centre on “ accelerating ” select AI undertaking and integrate their tooling into Airbnb ’s political platform . “Airbnb is one of the more humanist companies in engineering , and I believe that , together with Adam and his squad , we can modernise some of the better interface and virtual applications for AI . ”
Chesky has made his AI ambitions for Airbnb clear in the recent past tense , say that he want to use procreative AI to build a “ travel concierge ” that learns about — and adapts to — traveller . Given that GamePlanner marks Airbnb ’s first attainment since 2019 ( and its first as a public company ) , it seems he ’s serious about convey that visual sense to fruition .
