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Online Travel
We've heard from travel companies partnering with OpenAI to implement generative AI. Now here's one partnering with Google.
Justin Dawes | 1 year ago
Business Travel
Conversational search is an exciting space in travel, even for the somewhat tedious side of travel and expenses management, which now sees the virtual assistant role extended into a data analyst. Navan is offering predictive travel budget solutions.
Selene Brophy | 1 year ago
Announcements
How does AI change travel? How can these tools drive hotel efficiency, handle airline customer service, and reshape the way we search for and book travel? Skift dives deep into these discussions and more.
Seth Borko | 1 year ago
The travel industry has long hoped for something to counter-balance the pecking order in Big Tech. It's not assured, but this time around generative AI could make it happen.
Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have the potential to transform sectors across the travel industry. This newsletter will keep you informed every step of the way.
Travel Technology
Skift has been following the unfolding relationship between generative AI and the travel industry, but this is only the beginning.
Expedia Group is the biggest player in travel to have publicly released a chatbot tool powered by ChatGPT. This is just the beginning, and if any anyone has the resources to really see what this tech can do in travel, it would be companies like Expedia.
As announcements have been made around ChatGPT and consumer-facing travel booking tech, other companies have been quietly working away on business-to-business generative AI products. There's more to come, no doubt.
News Blog
Google is starting to release the chatbot Bard, its rival to ChatGPT. Google made the announcement Tuesday morning in a blog post. Users in the U.S. and the U.K. can join a waitlist for access. The platform will be expanded to other countries and languages later. Both platforms are powered by generative AI, a model…
The quick ChatGPT update exemplifies the rapid advancement of AI and how easily new work can be left in the dust.