Yutori, a startup focused on AI assistance and founded by former executives from Meta, has announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to further develop its autonomous AI agents.
The investment round was led by Radical Ventures, under the direction of Rob Toews, with additional support from Felicis, AI innovator Fei-Fei Li, and Jeff Dean, the chief scientist at Google DeepMind.
Yutori is dedicated to creating AI-powered personal assistants that can perform complex tasks independently. The company’s strategy leverages recent advancements in AI models that allow for extended action sequences, which are crucial for autonomous decision-making. Industry experts, including OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, have noted a growing emphasis on these autonomous systems as we approach 2025.
Co-founder Devi Parikh pointed out the transition from conventional chatbots to AI solutions that not only respond but also actively execute tasks. Yutori’s goal is to simplify a range of activities, from ordering food online to coordinating complex travel arrangements.
The company is focusing on post-training strategies to improve AI models, boosting their capability to browse the internet and perform specific tasks. This approach enables Yutori to enhance foundational AI models after their initial training on extensive datasets, a method that is becoming popular with emerging reasoning models such as OpenAI’s o1 and o3.
Yutori’s leadership team features Parikh, who previously led multimodal AI research at Meta, and Dhruv Batra, the former head of Meta’s embodied AI research. The startup has also recruited specialists who contributed to post-training innovations in Meta’s Llama 3 and Llama 4, which are open-source AI models.
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