Chesky Says OpenAI Tools Not Ready for ChatGPT Tie-Up With Airbnb App
Airbnb Inc. is adding new social features to encourage user connections and eventually make better travel recommendations within the app.
Photographer: Gabby Jones/BloombergAirbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said he didn’t integrate his company’s online travel app with OpenAI’s ChatGPT because the startup’s connective tools aren’t “quite ready” yet.
Airbnb will monitor the development of ChatGPT’s app integrations and may consider a tie-up in the future similar to those of its peers Booking Holdings Inc. and Expedia Group Inc., Chesky said in an interview.
“I didn’t think it was quite ready,” he said of ChatGPT’s integration abilities. Because Airbnb is a community with verified members, OpenAI will have to build a platform so robust that Airbnb’s app can work within the ChatGPT chatbot in an “almost self-contained” manner, Chesky said.