Barry Diller Says Expedia Has AI Edge With OpenAI CEO as a Director
Skift Take
Having OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on the Expedia Group board for the last few years certainly didn't hurt Expedia's ChatGPT rollout, although it's been using artificial intelligence for years.
Expedia Group has been at the forefront of the travel industry in releasing two generative AI tools for trip planning. Chairman Barry Diller claimed the company had a head start because of its ties with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
An independent director, Altman has been on the Expedia Group board of directors since September 2019.
Addressing what he described as “the topic of the second,” artificial intelligence, at an Expedia Group partner conference at its Seattle headquarters Tuesday, Diller claimed that months before ChatGPT's public release, Altman demonstrated the chatbot’s capabilities at an event for one of “
