Uber’s AI Solutions Arm Is Recruiting Travel Agents
Photo Credit: Uber AI Solutions has been recruiting freelancers with expertise in travel. Skift / Adriana Lee
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By recruiting travel experts to train external clients’ generative AI models, Uber signals it wants to become a behind-the-scenes infrastructure player for trip planning. But are travel planners and agents going along for the ride?
Less than six months after Uber AI Solutions launched as a new business unit, the group has been recruiting travel experts and other professionals to help train other companies’ AI models.
A job listing posted on LinkedIn asked for experienced candidates — not just travel enthusiasts. The three-month project asked for “specifically travel agents, destination planners, and logistics experts, to collaborate on a new client project at the frontier of Generative AI (GenAI).”
An Uber spokesperson told Skift that the search for freelance travel contributors “is a real opportunity for a client project, and not an internal Uber initiative,” but couldn’t disclose details “given client confidentiality.”
External work is increasingly important for Uber as it pitches the AI Solutions division as a partner for companies build
