Artificial intelligence is being used by Airbnb to accelerate product development as the company works towards developing an advanced search experience designed to help customers to search for stays and experiences.

According to Airbnb, AI is enabling its engineering teams to develop faster, which allows them to develop and test new products faster.

Airbnb has been increasing the amount of work it has been doing with AI in its product and engineering processes as technology plays an increasingly critical role in the development of its platform.

Search has been one of the areas where the technology has been implemented. The company is currently developing a new search engine that will provide users with greater flexibility to search for listing based on their preferences instead of searching based on filters.

It is happening in the context where more companies are leveraging the power of AI to create a more personalized and conversational search experience. In other words, instead of just typing in keywords, the users will be able to provide information in natural language.

Indeed, for Airbnb, better search functionality is an important aspect because there are thousands of listings on the site that can be found in many markets.

Moreover, the AI has been implemented by the company internally. According to the official representatives of the firm, developers at Airbnb have been applying artificial intelligence solutions for coding and other stages of the development cycle. This makes teams concentrate more on developing and testing new features and not perform repetitive engineering tasks.

This trend is related to a general industry-wide tendency because now many technology firms apply artificial intelligence not only as a product but also integrate it into their software development process.

Now Airbnb focuses on implementation of such technology not only to speed up the development process but also to make users discover properties on the site easier.

Thus, with the rise of usage of artificial intelligence in engineering workflows, this initiative from Airbnb provides one more example of how technology firms implement such technology for the acceleration of product development and exploration of new ways of improving customer experience.