Ex-Apple designer-led Hark launches proactive Hark Pro app ahead of 2027 hardware
Hark, the AI startup led by Figure AI founder Brett Adcock, launched Hark Pro on October 6, a proactively positioned app available free on web, iOS and Android, with paid tiers at $20 a month for double usage and $100 for ten times the usage that can buy groceries, hail rides or build spreadsheets for users. The main screen is still built around a text box, while "proactive cards" on the left use connected email and third-party services to remind users that a colleague is waiting for approval, that receipts need submitting or that a flight needs checking in; tasks run on a cloud computer called Handoff, which Hark demonstrated ordering food on DoorDash with only payment confirmation left to the user. Hark design lead Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple industrial designer, compares today's chatbots to early command-line interfaces and wants Hark to do for AI what the Macintosh did for PCs; the company's first hardware is slated for 2027 with no details disclosed, and Hark says it will not sell user data or share it with advertisers.
If proactive agents can reliably finish multi-step tasks across websites, the contest over where everyday tasks begin could shift away from chat boxes toward apps and hardware that simply do the work.


由 Figure AI 創辦人布雷特·阿德科克(Brett Adcock)領軍的 AI 新創 Hark,6 日推出主打「主動式」服務的 AI 應用程式 Hark Pro,首款硬體 2027 年問世。Hark 設計主管 Abidur Chowdhury 曾任蘋果(Apple)工業設計師,2025 年 9 月在蘋果發表會介紹 iPhone Air,兩個月後離職加入 Hark。
Hark Pro 定位為「生活的作業系統」,網頁、iOS 與 Android 平台免費使用,付費方案每月 20 美元可享兩倍用量、100 美元享十倍用量,可代人採買日用品、叫車或建立試算表。
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