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Partnering with CookUnity to deliver award-winning, chef-prepared meals through Airbnb Services
Airbnb and CookUnity, a leading chef-led meal delivery service, are partnering to help take the hassle out of cooking for travelers and locals, with convenient access to prepared meals through Airbnb Services.
Through this partnership, Airbnb guests can reserve affordable prepared meals crafted by award-winning chefs, including Esther Choi, Cat Cora, Ludo Lefebvre, José Garces, Einat Admony, Aarthi Sampath, Dustin Taylor and John DeLucie, representing a diverse range of cuisines and culinary styles. Each CookUnity meal highlights the creativity and craft of their chef creator and brings the experience of culinary excellence straight to guests, wherever they are, without the high cost of ordering take out or dining out.
Airbnb in Kentucky: A $590M economic engine for local communities
Key Takeaways :
- In 2024, Airbnb hosts welcomed more than one million guests to Kentucky.
- 8,700 tourism jobs supported by Airbnb hosts welcoming guests, which in turn generated approximately $354 million in income for local workers in 2024.
- By enabling guests to stay closer to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail they came to experience, Airbnb helps fill the accommodation gap, ensuring that visitors also spend time in—and money at—family-owned restaurants, local shops, and nearby attractions.
Airbnb announces Ahmad Al-Dahle as Chief Technology Officer
Airbnb Co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky shared the following email with employees around the globe today:
Hey team,
I’m excited to share that Ahmad Al-Dahle is joining as our new Chief Technology Officer.
Ahmad is one of the world’s leading experts in AI. He joins us from Meta, where he led Generative AI and the team behind the Llama family of open source models. I’ve known Ahmad for a couple of years, and I want to share more about who he is and why he’s the right leader to join Airbnb at such a pivotal moment.
Ahmad grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, one of the coldest places in the world. It was so cold that he would often stay inside playing video games with his friends, which is where his interest in computers and programming began. Before long, he was building his own games and computers.
He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo, and in 2005, while still a student, he began working at Apple on the iPhone, two years before it launched. After graduating, he joined full time. At Apple, Ahmad worked on the frontier of technology. He was one of the core technologists behind the iPhone’s display and multitouch systems. He later worked in Apple’s core technology platform group, shipping major features in nearly a dozen devices, including the first Apple Watch. In 2014, Ahmad created and led Apple’s autonomous technology group, responsible for developing the core AI systems for the company’s self-driving car project.
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