venturebeat

2025-12-08

Booking.com’s agent strategy: Disciplined, modular and already delivering 2× accuracy

When many enterprises weren’t even thinking about agentic behaviors or infrastructures, Booking.com had already “stumbled” into them with its homegrown conversational recommendation system.

This early experimentation has allowed the company to take a step back and avoid getting swept up in the frantic AI agent hype. Instead, it is taking a disciplined, layered, modular approach to model development: small, travel-specific models for cheap, fast inference; larger large language models (LLMs) for reasoning and understanding; and domain-tuned evaluations built in-house when precision is critical.

With this hybrid strategy — combined with selective collaboration with OpenAI — Booking.com has seen accuracy double across k [...]

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Match Score: 88.87

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Match Score: 79.84

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Hopper's AI agent can book flights and cancel trips without human help

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Match Score: 79.79

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GitHub's Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises' biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control

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Match Score: 78.76

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The Google Search of AI agents? Fetch launches ASI:One and Business tier for new era of non-human web

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Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, [...]

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Microsoft retires AutoGen and debuts Agent Framework to unify and govern enterprise AI agents

Microsoft’s multi-agent framework, AutoGen, acts as the backbone for many enterprise projects, particularly with the release of AutoGen v0.4 in January. However, the company aims to harmonize all o [...]

Match Score: 71.00