What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents
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ventureBeat
July 6, 2026 · 08:00
There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second.Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset. The hardest part of building AI at scale isn't getting a model to work once. It's building systems that continue to work, scale beyond individual teams and use cases, and improve consistently over time.Today's AI systems do more than just predict and optimize. They converse, reason, and increasingly take action. An autonomous system making decisions on a traveler's behalf creates a very different set of expectations around reliability, governance, and accountability. As AI takes on more of those roles, the principl…
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