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Seven years ago Yang Fan Yun was leaving school as New Zealand's top scholar - winning the Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence and entry into his pick of the globe's top universities: Stanford
. He came out with a bachelor of computer science and a masters of engineering - and the highest GPA in Stanford's computer science department.
That expertise has been channelled into a start-up that's just received US $5.6m dollars in seed funding, including from one of the world's biggest AI companies, Anthropic.
Yang's created a tool called Composite that harnesses AI to predict and automate the work it can see needs doing on your browser - the idea is better integration that'll take care of the gruntwork.
As Yang puts it, he wants to stop us being "digital factory workers stuck in Chrome tabs".
He joins Kathryn from San Francisco to explain how it works.
