Yutori's Batra: most of the web will never get agent APIs — pixels in, clicks out
DhruvBatra_ · x · 2026-08-27
On the Chain of Thought podcast, Yutori founder Dhruv Batra laid out his computer-use agent thesis:
- Most of the web will never expose APIs for agents — the long tail of school, government, and e-commerce sites was built for humans; agents should operate the human web like self-driving cars share roads with people.
- Its 27B Navigator n2 edges out Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 on browser benchmarks while running 2–3× faster and 4–5× cheaper — small specialized models are an economic necessity as aging H100s cost more and enterprises burn annual AI budgets in a month.
- Navigator N1.5 writes custom JavaScript on the fly to shorten trajectories (filling multiple form fields at once), while treating pixels, not the DOM, as ground truth.
- Training increasingly uses live websites rather than cloned synthetic ones, with URL query parameters as privileged signals for verifiers the agent never sees.
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