Yutori is a US AI assistant startup founded by former Meta AI executives. It builds autonomous agents that browse and act on the web, with the stated goal of giving "everyone an AI chief-of-staff capable of reliably handling everyday digital tasks" (Source: yutori.com). The company raised $15 million in seed funding in March 2025 (Source: reuters.com).
Founders
Yutori was founded by Abhishek Das, Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra; Das and Parikh lead the company as co-CEOs and Batra is chief scientist (Source: ai.engineer). At Meta, Parikh led multimodal AI research and Batra led embodied AI research, a team developing models for robots navigating the physical world (Source: reuters.com). The company describes its founding team as having previously worked at Meta (Llama 3 and 4, FAIR), Google (Gemini), DeepMind, Microsoft Research and Tesla Autopilot, among others (Source: yutori.com). Secondary profiles give 2024 as the founding year (Source: ai.engineer).
Products
Yutori's founders describe an "agent-first" approach in which models, training techniques and interfaces are co-designed, combining post-training, reinforcement learning, test-time search, multi-agent collaboration and generative interfaces (Source: yutori.com). Parikh told Reuters that chatbots "are not doing things for you in a way that can take things off your plate," citing tasks from online food orders to travel logistics (Source: reuters.com).
- Scouts (announced June 10, 2025, initially via waitlist) are always-on agents that monitor specified URLs or the wider web for topics a user sets, such as research papers or price drops, and report updates; users can inspect the agents' actions (Source: yutori.com). Batra described the product to Fortune as "an experiment" to learn how people use autonomous agents (Source: fortune.com).
- Navigator is Yutori's family of computer-use models, first announced November 19, 2025 as a web agent (Source: yutori.com). Navigator n1 (January 2026) is a browser-use model offered through Yutori's API, which the company says was trained with mid-training, supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on real websites (Source: yutori.com). Navigator n1.5 followed on May 6, 2026, and Navigator n2, a 27-billion-parameter general-purpose model for full desktop environments on Linux, macOS and Windows priced at $0.50 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens, on August 26, 2026 (Source: yutori.com). Yutori reports n2 results on OSWorld and other computer-use benchmarks; these are developer-reported (Source: yutori.com). See AI Agentic Browsers.
Funding
Yutori raised $15 million in a seed round in March 2025, led by Radical Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and angel investors including Elad Gil, Sarah Guo, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Amjad Masad and Guillermo Rauch (Source: yutori.com). The amount is small relative to frontier-lab funding rounds.
Market position
Reuters described Yutori as a startup developing AI personal assistants (Source: reuters.com). It sits in the consumer AI assistant segment, which also includes companion products such as Character.AI and Replika, and its agents address tasks also targeted by assistant and agent features from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta AI. A 2025 account of the Windsurf acquisition states that the pattern of Google's conduct in that deal also applied to Character.AI and "later Yutori," without further detail (Source: Raw Sources/Windsurf Acquisition Saga 2025.md); see The AI Acquihire Pattern.
Relationships
- instance-of: Agentic AI — building autonomous AI assistant products
- related: AI Agentic Browsers — web and computer-use agents
- related: OSWorld — benchmark on which Navigator results are reported
- related: Enterprise AI Deployment Gap — navigating the gap between AI capability and practical deployment
- related: Meta AI — founders are former Meta executives
- related: Character.AI — consumer AI assistant/companion segment
- related: The AI Acquihire Pattern