OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder

OpenAI has acquired Odessia, a travel startup founded by Francis Davidson, the founder of Sonder. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, and OpenAI has not announced any specific plans for the future of travel. Odessia's AI travel agent had helped early adopters plan millions of dollars' worth of travel, but the tool has been shut down. OpenAI's spokesperson mentioned that travel is one of the areas that people are using personal AI assistants to help with, and that it sees an opportunity to make travel-related experiences more useful through its chatbot, ChatGPT.