Former Meta Founders Unveil AI Assistant 'Delegate'

Founders from Meta (Meta) have unveiled 'Delegate', an executive AI assistant designed to handle complex web-based tasks on behalf of users. AI startup Yutori announced the launch of this AI agent. Delegate understands user-intended tasks, sequences them, and executes them automatically, requesting further clarification from the user if additional information is needed for task completion. This AI is developed to align with the recent trend in the AI industry, going beyond simple question-answering to directly execute user instructions and delegate tasks. The vision is to help users focus on more important work by offloading repetitive and cumbersome digital tasks to AI.

Yutori's Co-CEOs Deby Farhi and Abhishek Das, along with Chief Scientist Dhruv Bhatia, are AI researchers from Meta Platforms. They aim to popularize and make 'agent-based AI' easily accessible to general users. The company name 'Yutori' is derived from a Japanese expression meaning 'leeway' or 'breathing room'.

Unlike traditional conversational AIs, Delegate continuously manages context in the background, seeking user confirmation only when necessary. The development team explained that the core concept is for users to 'delegate' what needs to be done at once, rather than inputting prompts each time. A demonstration showed a user inputting their daily schedule and tasks, whereupon Delegate organized and categorized them, incorporated some tasks into the calendar, requested additional permissions for others, or passed them to separate sub-agents.

These action-oriented AIs align with the 'agent-based AI' trend, which the AI industry is focusing on as the next step beyond chatbots. This trend highlights a competitive landscape expanding capabilities in task execution, including scheduling, information retrieval, web manipulation, and long-term task management.

The Delegate system is built as a combination of several sub-systems developed by Yutori. 'Scouts,' launched in June 2025, is a crawling sub-agent that performs continuous web monitoring and research, while 'Navigator' is a computer vision-based cloud web agent responsible for web page manipulation. These two systems perform search, surveillance, and actual web operations, forming a hierarchical structure with Delegate overseeing the overall tasks.

For tasks requiring additional permissions, the 'Yutori Local' desktop app is integrated, handling actions like logins, web browsing, and shopping within the user's local device. This desktop app is presented as a differentiator, addressing security and privacy concerns by keeping sensitive account information on the local environment rather than external servers.

Yutori emphasized that users retain full control over all permission levels, even when Delegate acts on their behalf. Users can monitor the agent's task execution process in real-time and view detailed execution logs, including webpage navigation, mouse movements, and form inputs, through a separate window.

The launch of Delegate clearly signals a shift in the AI market's competitive focus from 'question answering' to 'task delegation'. Challenges remain for agent-based AI to gain widespread adoption, including accuracy, prevention of permission misuse, security, and defining liability in case of failure. Attention is turning to whether 'personal assistant AIs' can truly become established productivity tools.