Brian Chesky

There's something, I think, richer on the horizon.

Yeah, maybe the simple framework is think about a travel journey.

Step one is destination discovery.

Where should I travel?

Step two is flights.

How do I get there?

Step three is where do I stay?

Airbnb or hotel.

Step four is what do I do when I get there?

Restaurants, activities.

And step five is typically logistics, car rental, services.

And then step six is you're in the city, and then you might want to do things that time spontaneously.

I think LLMs, or let's call it the LLM technology, applied to, I'm arguing, a slightly richer user interface than a typical chatbot will be revolutionary for step one, step two, for destination discovery and flights.

Also, because flights are not very hard to build, there's just three global distribution systems.

Anyone can pipe in an API and have a flight booking app pretty, pretty quickly.

And so I think the LMs are really, really good at destination discovery.

If you want to say, hey, I want to go somewhere that's like Paris, but it's a little more affordable, it's good to go in August, I like opera, it's going to give you a very rich suggestion of places to go.

I think the current chatbot doesn't have really rich maps.

I think it could do a lot more visually.

I think eventually chatbots or this new interface could be very video-based.