Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: AI Opens New Markets, ‘Everything Is Now Back on the Table’

Airbnb Flights, anyone?

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky told investors Tuesday that the strength of artificial intelligence and the eventual emergence of native AI applications means that Airbnb can consider entering new businesses that it might have previously dismissed.

"I think everything is now back on the table," Chesky said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. "Businesses that Airbnb maybe had no business to get into because the industry is mature. It's now a fair game again because you can completely reimagine the interface."

The new interfaces would be AI native, a project Airbnb is wor