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Airbnb unveils major overhaul with new Services category

The home-share giant is also revamping local experiences and its app.

5/13/25 1:53PM

Airbnb just unveiled its most sweeping revamp since its launch, rolling out on-demand services, curated local experiences, and a redesigned app tying it all together.

Starting today, users can book everything from massages to in-home dinners all within Airbnb’s new Services platform, which includes 10 categories across 260 cities.

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Airbnb is also relaunching Experiences, its platform for activities led by locals, which aims to elevate those activities while also adding Airbnb Originals like anime cosplay with Megan Thee Stallion or glam camp with pop star Sabrina Carpenter.

“People choose hotels for their services. People choose Airbnbs for the space,” Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, said. “Now, we’re giving you the best of both worlds — amazing homes with services that make them even more special.”

Both offerings are stitched together in a rebuilt Airbnb app. For hosts, the app now includes streamlined listing tools and calendar integration.

The revamp comes as Airbnb looks to stay ahead in a shifting travel space. Though the company recently saw a rebound in nights booked for Q1, management has warned of cooling demand in some markets. Still, optimism is high, with Airbnb’s stock up more than 4% year to date.

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Elsewhere in the blog post, Friar spent time addressing the company’s shifting goals, referencing plans to “close the distance between where intelligence is advancing and how individuals, companies, and countries actually adopt and use it.” As has become customary in the AI company press release genre, the CFO was also keen to tout the unending growth of the business, writing:

“Both our Weekly Active User (WAU) and Daily Active User (DAU) figures continue to produce all-time highs. This growth is driven by a flywheel across compute, frontier research, products, and monetization.”
“Compute grew 3X year over year or 9.5X from 2023 to 2025: 0.2 GW in 2023, 0.6 GW in 2024, and ~1.9 GW in 2025.”

And, perhaps most importantly for current backers and those keeping an eye on the private company before its rumored mega IPO:

“Revenue followed the same curve growing 3X year over year, or 10X from 2023 to 2025: $2B ARR in 2023, $6B in 2024, and $20B+ in 2025. This is never-before-seen growth at such scale.”

That latest figure has certainly set tongues in the tech world wagging, just as the company announced it would begin rolling out ads to free and ChatGPT Go users. It also puts the chatbot giant a fair way ahead of competitors like Anthropic, the company behind Claude.

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“Both our Weekly Active User (WAU) and Daily Active User (DAU) figures continue to produce all-time highs. This growth is driven by a flywheel across compute, frontier research, products, and monetization.”
“Compute grew 3X year over year or 9.5X from 2023 to 2025: 0.2 GW in 2023, 0.6 GW in 2024, and ~1.9 GW in 2025.”