OpenAI Buys AI Travel Startup Odessia as Founder Joins the Team
OpenAI has acquired AI travel agent startup Odessia. Its founder, Francis Davidson, has joined OpenAI to help explore the travel business direction.
Odessia was founded just a year ago and raised $6 million in pre-seed funding led by Sequoia Capital. About 5 months ago, it launched an AI travel agent service that helped early users plan trips worth millions of dollars.
OpenAI confirmed the deal and called Davidson an experienced builder. Its travel partners include Booking.com, Expedia, and KAYAK, but OpenAI has not announced any new travel products yet. It only said travel is one of the topics users often ask ChatGPT about.
Davidson is well known in the travel industry. In 2014, while still in college, he founded travel startup Sonder. It works much like Airbnb, offering short-term rentals of high-end apartments in major cities worldwide.
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