Former Meta Executives Secure $15 Mn For Yutori Venture
Former Meta AI executives Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das, and Dhruv Batra have secured $15 million in funding for their new San Francisco-based startup, Yutori. The company develops autonomous AI personal assistants capable of performing online tasks independently. The investment round was led by Rob Toews from Radical Ventures, with participation from Felicis Ventures, Google’s DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and renowned AI researcher Fei-Fei Li. A closed beta of Yutori’s first product will be launched this spring, and early adopters can join a waitlist here. “We’re reimagining how people interact with the web — building the entire stack to be agent-first, from training our own models to generative product interfaces,” read their post on LinkedIn. “Ultimately, we want to give everyone an AI chief-of-staff.” The company announced that the funds will accelerate the development of Yutori’s agent-first approach, support the expansion of its engineering and design teams, and facilitate preparations for the product’s launch. “Web agents will be one of the next great killer applications in AI. But despite all the hype, there are still no web agents out there today that actually work and that people use in their daily lives,” said Rob Toews, partner at Radical Ventures. “Fundamental advances in post-training, in multimodal AI, in UX are still required in order to unlock this massive market opportunity.” Yutori joins a rapidly growing group of startups working on autonomous AI systems designed to execute digital tasks without human intervention. The founding team includes tech leads behind Llama 3 and Llama 4, along with engineers and researchers from Meta, Google Gemini, Minion, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, and Georgia Tech.
Their goal is to give everyone an ‘AI chief-of-staff.’
Their goal is to give everyone an 'AI chief-of-staff.'
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