Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025.
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Key points
- Now Al-Dahle is in charge of turning Airbnb into an “AI-native company”.
- An example of inside-out AI: Airbnb used a custom internal tool called Everest to help accelerate the launch of a new external service.
- From its launch in 2008, Airbnb has been considered a technology company operating in the hospitality industry.
- Al-Dahle reeled off a few statistics to show that Airbnb is AI-pilled now: 60% of its code is now AI-authored, it has shipped nearly 80% more features and improvements year over year, and pull-request throughput for the average engineer is up about 1.6x.
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- [1]Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest ExperienceLatent Space · Oct 2, 02:04 PM
Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025.
Now Al-Dahle is in charge of turning Airbnb into an “AI-native company”.
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