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# What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
**Original:** https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/what-billions-of-ai-predictions-taught-expedia-before-the-age-of-ai-agents  

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## Overview

There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second.Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset. The hardest part of building AI at scale isn't getting a model to work once. It's building systems that continue to work, scale beyond individual teams and use cases, and improve consistently over time.Today's AI systems

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