Figure AI founder unveils Hark to build personal intelligence hardware
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock just launched Hark, a new AI lab that operated in stealth for eight months. The company plans to build advanced personal intelligence paired with custom next-generation hardware, aiming to create a universal interface that offloads daily mental workloads.
Brett Adcock spent the last few years building humanoid robots, but using regular AI chatbots still left him completely underwhelmed.
The Figure AI and Archer Aviation founder announced Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab focused on creating personal intelligence. The startup operated in stealth for eight months while putting together a combined team of AI researchers and hardware engineers.
Rethinking the interface to AGI
Adcock explained that while humanoid bodies solve the physical side of AI, existing LLM chatbots feel remarkably dumb in daily use.
In his view, real artificial general intelligence should feel like something out of a sci-fi film. It needs persistent memory, deep personalization, fluent voice conversation, and the ability to see and interact with the physical world around you.
Hark aims to build a new interface designed to shoulder daily mental workloads, learning to think like its user and occasionally ahead of them. To get there, the company is developing both advanced personal intelligence models and custom hardware meant to serve as a universal bridge between humans and machines.
Why it matters
For everyday users, the novelty of standard text boxes is wearing off. Today's assistants lack real context and forget everything the moment a session ends. If Hark can successfully combine continuous memory with ambient awareness, it could represent a massive shift in how we interact with technology. But with no product designs or release dates shared yet, there is nothing for consumers to test right now.
We think Adcock's decision to build custom hardware makes sense conceptually. Soft-only chatbots are trapped inside operating systems, unable to see what you see. Controlling the physical device is the only real way to capture continuous real-world input.
That said, the AI hardware category has a terrible track record recently. Turning ambitious vision into a gadget people actually want to carry around every day will be Hark's hardest test yet.
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