Airbnb has made a rare acquisition its first as a public company and only its third ever valued at more than a hundred million dollars

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It's Tuesday November 14th. Welcome to the Tech Check

podcast. I'm dear Dribosa. And I'm Mark Gilbert. Today a

surprise acquisition from Airbnb not a hugely acquisitive company and D what kind of company is it these

days who else who gets buzz and attention and funding it's a generative AI company

and who's making any acquisitions outside of generative AI?

You, you know, in sort of the hype cycle is back.

It's been here the whole year, but it was off and it's kind of on again. You see coming back sort of with the market tech's been leading the way

But this in particular let's talk about the story the startup is called game planner.

AI We broke this story on air this morning on This startup is called game planner. AI.

We broke this story on air this morning on Tech Check, the TV daily version.

And sources tell me that the deal was valued at just under $200 million.

Now, there's no information about this company. There's no website.

You can't even find any information on Pitchbook which is sort of our go-to to look at

private startups. Because this has been in so-called stealth mode.

So some early companies choose to build in stealth mode so that they can protect their

intellectual property and they can avoid distractions.

What I can tell you about this company is it was co-founded by Adam Chair.

He is a well-known name in artificial intelligence.

One of the founders of Siri, the voice assistant of Apple, when it was acquired by Apple, he worked alongside

Steve Jobs, so some big credibility there.

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