Hark Launches AI Lab Building Futuristic Interface to Artificial Intelligence

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hark, a new artificial intelligence company founded by innovator Brett Adcock, announced the formation of an artificial intelligence lab that's building advanced personalized intelligence. Hark is creating intelligence paired with next-generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines.

Hark is developing AI that is proactive, personalized, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory. Unlike companies focused on a single layer of the AI stack, Hark is building foundation models, software systems, native hardware, and new interfaces together from the start. By designing these technologies as a single platform, the company is taking a vertically integrated approach that is essential to building a seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product that can anticipate needs, reduce cognitive workload, and operate more like a collaborative partner than traditional software.

“The AI systems I use today are far from my vision of what the future should be. We want to create intelligence that lets you offload your mental workload into a system that begins to think like you and sometimes ahead of you. To do this, we need to build the full stack of next-generation AI models and advanced hardware interfaces,” said Adcock, founder of Hark.

Building the Next Interface for AI

While today’s AI systems largely operate through chat interfaces and old consumer devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems designed to interact naturally with people and the real world.

To achieve this, Hark is developing multimodal AI models alongside purpose-built hardware, designing both together to create a new interface for interacting with intelligent systems.

The company’s AI models combine several core capabilities:

• Multimodal intelligence, integrating speech, text, vision, and contextual awareness.
• Highly personalized memory systems that adapt over time to understand who you are—your preferences, goals, and aspirations.
• Proactive behavior, enabling AI to anticipate needs rather than simply respond to prompts.
• Real-time speech models for natural conversation and interaction.

Hark is also developing native hardware designed for these models, enabling systems that can listen, see, and interact with the world in real time. By building both the models and the hardware together, Hark aims to create a more natural interface where personal AI can operate continuously and seamlessly in everyday life.

Team Drawn from Apple, Meta, Google and Leading AI Labs

Hark has assembled a team across AI research, hardware engineering, and design from leading technology companies.

On the design side, Hark has recruited Abidur Chowdhury, the lead designer for the iPhone at Apple, who most recently introduced the iPhone Air during Apple’s keynote. Chowdhury now leads Hark’s design effort to bring human-level intelligence into real-world, intuitive interfaces.

“We’re at the precipice of a new era of technology, beyond the devices and interfaces we use today. Future technology shouldn’t demand our constant attention or create a barrier between our senses and the world around us. We believe the future is a new interface that will understand you, intelligently anticipate your needs, and love doing tasks that you don’t want to do. Done right, it will create space to focus on meaningful problems, create beautiful things, and spend time with people you love,” said Chowdhury.

Hark currently has a team of more than 45 researchers, engineers, and designers from leading AI and technology companies. The AI team includes researchers with experience in large-scale model training, tokenization, speech systems, and multimodal data infrastructure.

On the hardware side, Hark has recruited engineers from Apple, Tesla and Meta with deep experience building consumer electronics on a global scale. Collectively, the team brings experience across all technical expertise including mechanical, electrical, firmware, embedded, supply chain, and operations, with each member bringing more than a decade of experience developing widely adopted consumer devices.

AI Infrastructure Already Underway

Hark is committed to building next-generation pretrained models that will underpin the future of AI devices. The company has recently signed a deal to scale its compute capacity, with a large cluster of thousands of NVIDIA B200 GPUs coming online in April to support multimodal pre-training and model post-training. Hark is working closely with NVIDIA to expand its infrastructure and accelerate development of its first generation of AI systems.

“The new era of personal AI will be defined by intelligent agents that understand context, reason across modalities, and act on our behalf,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Bringing that vision to life requires enormous compute to build powerful multimodal foundation models, and we're excited to support Hark's work with NVIDIA accelerated computing.”

The company plans to first roll out software experiences and AI models as soon as this summer, giving users early access to its personal AI platform. Soon after, Hark will introduce AI-native hardware devices designed specifically for these systems, creating a seamless experience where models, software, and hardware work together.

“We believe the next computing platform will be personal AI—intelligence that understands you and works alongside you every day. But that future only becomes possible when the entire stack is built together,” concluded Adcock.

About Hark

Hark is an artificial intelligence company developing highly intelligent, multimodal AI systems and native hardware devices designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines. Founded by entrepreneur Brett Adcock, Hark focuses on building proactive, personalized AI that interacts with the world through speech, vision, and memory.

For more information, visit hark.com.