IrisGo, an AI desktop assistant backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, launches beta versions of macOS and Windows apps designed to automate repetitive knowledge work tasks.

IrisGo closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Andrew Ng's AI Fund earlier this year. The company was co-founded by Jeffrey Lai, a former Apple engineer who helped build the Chinese language version of Siri. Nvidia and Google have also backed the company.

The desktop companion learns a user's workflows by observing them once, then automates those tasks with minimal human input. It includes a built-in library of skills for email drafting, invoice processing, report building, and document summarization, plus a coding assistant. Most data processing happens on-device for privacy; larger tasks use the cloud only when explicitly authorized by the user with end-to-end encryption.

IrisGo recently launched beta versions of its macOS and Windows apps and is pursuing deals with laptop makers to preinstall the software. The company has already struck such a deal with Acer.

The target audience is knowledge workers in white-collar companies who perform repetitive daily tasks.