Booking Holdings launches Vayo, an AI travel startup, with $100M planned

Booking Holdings launched Vayo, a Seattle-based AI travel startup led by serial entrepreneur Mike Fridgen, and said it plans to invest $100 million. Booking Holdings said the investment is "subject to continued advancement of the product and market conditions." Vayo opened a waitlist Wednesday for a free private beta. Its AI agents connect to a user's inbox to pull in flight, hotel and restaurant confirmations; users can make restaurant reservations now, with flight and hotel booking expected in the next few weeks. Booking is betting that travel-specific AI agents can plan and manage trips better than general-purpose assistants from OpenAI and Meta, the company said.

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