2 October 2026
Airbnb adds grocery delivery and airport pickup services
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- Airbnb launched two new services beyond lodging: grocery delivery and airport transportation for guests staying at properties.
- The company built an internal system called Everest using large language models, which organize information to help coordinate these new services.
- Grocery delivery took eight to nine months to develop, while airport pickup launched in six weeks after applying lessons from the first project.
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Airbnb expanded into grocery deliveries and airport pickups in 2026, leveraging an internal organizational context graph called Everest powered by LLMs and embeddings. The grocery service took eight to nine months to develop, while learnings fed into the airport pickup service which was completed in just six weeks.