Airbnb Engineering

What if you could get frontier-level AI classification at 1% of the cost?

Airbnb engineers fine-tuned a small language model to deliver comparable accuracy in under 100ms. Here’s how. 👇

airbnb.tech/ai-ml/frontier…

How do you safely launch an AI support agent globally? 👀

Airbnb engineer @WeipingPeng shares the story at #QConSF on Nov 16th, from guardrails to outsmarting attackers to lessons that shaped every agent launch.

qconsf.com/presentation/n…

How do you give AI agents institutional knowledge?

@Airbnb CTO @Ahmad_Al_Dahle shares Project Everest, a “company brain” built from employee workflows with @samcharrington for the @twimlai podcast.

Check it out!

twimlai.com/go/781.

Airbnb is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of EMNLP 2026!

We'll be sharing talks & posters on LLM tool-agent harnesses, agentic orchestration, and agentic RAG, plus we're hiring applied NLP/AI talent.

Come say hi at our booth and let's explore whats next for AI at Airbnb!

How do you train search before the first real query? 🏡

Airbnb’s CASTLE combines AI with booking behavior to generate realistic search queries and relevance labels, helping natural language search better understand what guests want.

See how it works 👇

medium.com/airbnb-enginee…