KAYAK.ai Beta - Plan your next trip and comparison shop — conversationally
KAYAK.ai is our innovative AI search platform, powered by OpenAI, that transforms travel planning. It’s a test lab for tech enthusiasts, curating tailored flight and hotel options—whether you’re seeking a budget weekend in London, or beachfront Miami stays.
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KAYAK
Today, KAYAK is officially rolling out KAYAK.ai where real-time travel information meets conversational search. Unlike other AI platforms, KAYAK.ai delivers the most up to date, comprehensive travel pricing from 400+ providers in a chat-first format that travelers can trust.
Built combining OpenAI’s technology with KAYAK’s intelligence, the site will serve as the company’s innovation lab for analyzing how travelers engage with KAYAK tools, data and insights conversationally. As KAYAK.com’s tech savvy sibling, it will cater to AI enthusiasts and those drawn to advanced technology. What works best on KAYAK.ai will graduate to KAYAK.com.
Below are a few recommended prompts to get you started:
“Which weekend in October has the cheapest flights from Boston to London?”
“When should I fly to Chicago for a 4 day trip?”
“I’m looking for flight options from NYC to London from July 3 to July 8”
I am looking for a hotel in New York with free breakfast. Checking in July 3 and checking out July 8”
@kellermatth Would be awesome to add multi-city trip planning in one go!
KAYAK
@masump Thank you, multi-city planning is definitely something on our minds. You can already search for multi-city flights for known dates, for example just try "I want to fly from Boston to San Francisco on July 5, then continue to Singapore on July 10, and return to Boston on July 20."
@kellermatth Perfrect idea but how do you balance the flexibility of open-ended chat with the structured nature of travel data (like fare classes, room types, filters)? It feels like a tricky UX challenge 🤔
KAYAK
@hamza_afzal_butt Thank you for your feedback. It's definitely a challenge but at the same time it opens up a number of great opportunities such as prompting for very specific results or searching for a flight and a hotel in the same prompt.
@kellermatth Very cool. How did you decide on the suggested queries? It seems for a new user modality those are quite important and need to return some solid results.
Its exciting to think of the voice possibilities here.
Congratulations on the launch!
KAYAK's chat-first approach is a very good differentiator in terms of a more intuitive and personalized user exp. compared to forms (I hate those). I am curious about how you ensure the pricing data stays up to the minute accurate across so many providers?
Also, imagine if "real-time travel info" was "real time-travel info"
KAYAK
@pranay12 We pull in pricing directly from our travel providers API’s. We know price accuracy is critical for anyone booking travel and given how quickly prices change - this is always something we are investing time in at KAYAK – so kayak.ai has a strong foundation here with being built on kayak.com search technology.
Being able to chat your way through travel plans makes everything so much easier and less stressful. Big congrats on the launch!
Raycast
Exciting to see Kayak back in the world of conversational AI travel commerce! They were one of the first with the @KAYAK Slack Bot, which I hunted 9 years ago!!
This has got to be a challenging problem to tackle, but it couldn't come soon enough as Perplexity has partnered with Tripadvisor, moving the state of play forward!
Jupitrr
Makes it easier for me to plan my next trip. Congrats on the launch @kellermatth
I've been a Kayak user for many years now. I'm excited to start using these AI feature.
PageOn.ai
It's really a great product. We provide support and hope to have the opportunity to learn more about our company's products