On March 28, an American AI startup, Yutori, completed a $15 million funding round, led by Rob Toews from Radical Ventures, with participation from Felicis, AI expert Fei-Fei Li, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind.
The new funds will be used to develop an AI-driven personal assistant. Yutori was co-founded by former Meta executives Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra. Parikh previously led multimodal AI research at Meta, while Batra was responsible for Meta's embodied AI research team.
The company's team also includes experts who participated in the development of Meta's open-source models Llama 3 and Llama 4. Yutori focuses on post-training optimization of AI models to improve pre-trained models for specific tasks.
