--- title: "Chesky plans AI lab, entering competition with Altman's OpenAI" url: https://daily.dev/posts/chesky-plans-ai-lab-entering-competition-with-altman-s-openai-sidpbb7dg source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/chesky-airbnb-ai-lab-openai-altman type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-05T17:03:07.305Z updated: 2026-06-05T17:03:27.465Z tags: ["ai", "llm", "openai"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Chesky plans AI lab, entering competition with Altman's OpenAI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is planning to back a new AI lab focused on user interaction and design, while remaining at Airbnb. The move puts him in indirect competition with OpenAI's Sam Altman, whom Chesky helped reinstate after the 2023 board crisis. Chesky's frustration stems from existing frontier models being too text-centric for the rich visual interfaces travel and commerce require. Airbnb has already made significant AI investments, including hiring Meta's generative AI lead as CTO and rebuilding its app around LLMs. The lab's details remain vague — no name, team, funding, or timeline — but the thesis is clear: Chesky believes the interface layer between AI models and consumers is underserved and worth dedicated research. This fits a broader pattern of prominent founders like Brett Adcock (Hark) and Mira Murati (Thinking Machines Lab) building their own AI research capacity rather than relying on commodity models from frontier labs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Airbnb's Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab](https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-s-brian-chesky-plans-to-launch-a-new-ai-lab-piv7nl48c) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board](https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-s-ceo-says-nobody-builds-ai-for-normal-people-he-is-on-y-combinator-s-board-cjw9v4ueq) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chesky-plans-ai-lab-entering-competition-with-altman-s-openai-sidpbb7dg)