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Figure AI Founder Brett Adcock Launches Hark: A New Lab Building True Personal AGI

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Figure AI Founder Brett Adcock Launches Hark: A New Lab Building True Personal AGI

Brett Adcock, the founder of humanoid robotics company Figure AI, has quietly launched his next ambitious venture: Hark, an AI laboratory dedicated to creating the world’s most advanced personal intelligence.

After eight months in stealth mode, Adcock officially introduced Hark on March 24, 2026. The company has assembled a powerhouse team of engineers specializing in both software (foundation models, agents, infrastructure) and hardware (consumer electronics and novel interfaces). Adcock is personally funding the effort with significant capital, including plans to fire up a large cluster of Nvidia GPUs in the coming weeks.

Why Current AI Falls Short

Adcock is blunt about the limitations of today’s technology. In his announcement, he stated that existing LLM chatbots feel incredibly dumb to him, despite years of rapid progress.

He believes they lack the core qualities needed for genuine AGI:

  • Long-term persistent memory;
  • Deep, genuine personalization;
  • The ability to interact naturally with the physical world (listening, speaking, seeing, and acting).

Instead of incremental improvements to chat interfaces, Hark is aiming for something far more ambitious: a proactive personal intelligence that can think like you — and sometimes ahead of you — to offload cognitive workload and act autonomously on your behalf.

The Vision: A True Personal AGI Companion

According to Hark’s manifesto and Adcock’s statements, the system will:

  • Build a rich, evolving understanding of its user;
  • Maintain persistent memory across conversations and tasks;
  • Operate through multi-modal interfaces (speech, vision, text);
  • Eventually influence the physical world through integrated hardware.

The company is developing bespoke native hardware devices and “agentic computers” designed from the ground up for the AGI era — moving beyond phones and laptops that were never built for truly intelligent systems.

Adcock envisions Hark as a universal interface between humans and machines, democratizing advanced super intelligence so people can focus on meaningful work, creativity, and relationships rather than routine cognitive tasks.

Current Status and Next Steps

So far, Hark has not released any working products or demos. The public launch consists of a conceptual manifesto on hark.com and an open waitlist for those interested in following the journey.

The company is actively hiring across foundation model research, infrastructure, computer-use agents, and hardware engineering. Adcock has emphasized that the team includes some of the best consumer electronics designers from Apple and beyond.

Big updates are promised throughout the year.

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A Serial Builder’s Next Chapter

After building Figure AI to give robots humanoid bodies and previously founding Archer Aviation and other companies, Adcock is now turning his attention to the digital counterpart: giving intelligence a truly personal, proactive form.

Whether Hark can deliver on its lofty promise of sci-fi-level personal AGI remains to be seen. But with Adcock’s track record, deep funding, and a strong team, the project is already generating significant excitement in the AI community.

If successful, Hark could redefine what it means to have an AI “assistant” — moving from reactive chatbots to genuine cognitive partners that live alongside us.

The waitlist is now open at hark.com. The future of personal intelligence may be closer than it seems.

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