{"id":1203476,"date":"2023-11-15T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203476"},"modified":"2023-11-15T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:45:00","slug":"airbnb-acquires-secretive-firm-launched-by-siri-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203476","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb Acquires Secretive Firm Launched By Siri Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, GamePlanner.AI, for around $200 million. TechCrunch reports: GamePlanner was co-founded by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat. Cheyer famously helped co-launch the startup Siri, which Apple acquired and whose technology became the basis for Apple&#8217;s AI-powered Siri assistant. Hodjat previously worked with Cheyer at Viv Labs, a firm that Samsung bought and leveraged to launch its own AI assistant, Bixby, in 2017. It&#8217;s not immediately clear what GamePlanner does. A LinkedIn search only turns up two associates: Gabe Greenbaum, a general partner at B Capital who sits on GamePlanner&#8217;s board of directors, and Joseph Huang, head of design at GamePlanner. GamePlanner hasn&#8217;t had a web presence for some time; the Internet Archive&#8217;s earliest cache of the website (from December 2021) yields a blank page.<\/p>\n<p>But in a canned statement, Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky hinted that the 12-person startup combines expertise in AI and design toward crafting AI-driven experiences, sort of like an AI-focused consultancy. &#8220;AI will rapidly alter our world more than any other technology in our lifetime, but we need to ensure that it augments humanity in a positive way,&#8221; Chesky said, adding that the GamePlanner team will focus on &#8220;accelerating&#8221; select AI projects and integrating their tooling into Airbnb&#8217;s platform. &#8220;Airbnb is one of the more humanistic companies in technology, and I believe that, together with Adam and his team, we can develop some of the best interfaces and practical applications for AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Airbnb+Acquires+Secretive+Firm+Launched+By+Siri+Co-Founder%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F15%2F2125253%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twitter_icon_large-511.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F15%2F2125253%2Fairbnb-acquires-secretive-firm-launched-by-siri-co-founder%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/facebook_icon_large-256.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/15\/2125253\/airbnb-acquires-secretive-firm-launched-by-siri-co-founder?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/15\/2125253\/airbnb-acquires-secretive-firm-launched-by-siri-co-founder?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airbnb Acquires Secretive Firm Launched By Siri Co-Founder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, GamePlanner.AI, for around $200 million. TechCrunch reports: GamePlanner was co-founded by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat. 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