Airbnb’s Chesky Says US is ‘Misunderstanding’ Use of Chinese AI (1)

Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky defended his company’s use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, saying US lawmakers who worry Chinese firms can access Americans’ user data are “misunderstanding” the technology.

Airbnb is not a customer of Alibaba or other Chinese companies, he said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday. “We are not providing data to any Chinese companies. They don’t have access to any data,” he said in an earlier interview with Bloomberg News, his first public response to a US House probe into Airbnb’s use of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen large language model for its customer service chatbot.

“We’re ...