Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says AI agents need their own operating system
Airbnb rolled out a new AI-powered search in its fall update while CEO Brian Chesky said chatbots aren’t the ideal interface for travel discovery and previewed the company’s push to become more "agent-friendly." Chesky described plans to support "multiplayer" (collaborative) agents, agent-to-agent interactions (referencing MCP interoperability), and a richer developer toolkit so agents can hand off into Airbnb’s app or act as an app themselves, arguing the industry lacks a true operating system built for AI agents.