Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
Key takeaways
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker.
- While Air Bn B has adopted AI coding tools, Chesky said last year it hasn t struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren t quite ready.
- He met Sam Altman in 2006 through Y Combinator, which incubated Airbnb, and stayed in touch.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
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 Tech Crunch 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 Air Bn B 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. He met Sam Altman in 2006 through Y Combinator, which incubated Airbnb, and stayed in touch. When OpenAI took off, he began meeting regularly with Altman to offer advice about managing a hypergrowth tech company.