Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

Key points

• In Brief Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker.
• He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own.
• The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many Silicon Valley machers who are unsatisfied with the models coming out of the frontier labs.
• While Airbnb has adopted AI coding tools, Chesky said last year it hasn’t struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren’t quite ready.
• Still, Chesky has plenty of insight.