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Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices

Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices

AI The Next Web
Brett Adcock's Hark is shipping its AI agent service to early users today, though the company's promised physical hardware is not expected until 2027.
What: Hark Pro is a web and mobile agent capable of automating tasks like grocery shopping, booking transport, and bill payments for $0, $20, or $100 per month. The company raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation. Competitor Meta recently launched a similar agent service with identical pricing tiers, while OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed device remains slated for 2027.
Why it matters: The race to capture the 'AI agent' market has shifted to software-first delivery while companies build out their proprietary hardware, suggesting the hardware is intended to be a specialized container for software features already being commoditized.
Original article

Brett Adcock’s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child’s lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company’s first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago.

Hark has released an AI agent that buys groceries, books cars and pays bills, a year before any of its hardware arrives. It is free, with tiers at $20 and $100 a month. Meta launched an agent that does the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago.

Hark Pro runs on the web and as an iOS or Android app, as Bloomberg reported. A cloud system called Handoff remembers what it is told, and the company says it juggles up to six browsers at once and can log in to millions of sites. Action Buttons pay a bill or cancel a service.

One example the company gives is noticing that a child’s lunch card is low and refilling it. Another is inferring from email that a flight is booked but a hotel is not. It stores card details and passwords in an encrypted vault that Hark says even it cannot see inside.

The devices come in 2027.

We reported in May that Hark had raised $700M at $6B two months after leaving stealth, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures in the round. Brett Adcock put in $100M of his own money first, and also runs Figure AI.

Nobody outside the company has seen the hardware.

Abidur Chowdhury, head of design and a former Apple lead on the iPhone Air, said the devices should be “portable, and useful in the home and workplace”, and that “we don’t really believe in glasses with cameras or a pin you can wear”. AT&T is supplying the cellular service.

The competition is already shipping the software part.

Meta’s Muse books, buys and negotiates, pays through Stripe’s Link and costs nothing, $20 or $100 a month, which is the same ladder Hark has just set.

It is rolling out in the United States, on iOS, Android and the web.

OpenAI’s first device is a $300 speaker designed by Jony Ive’s studio, also due in 2027.

None of them has settled how an agent pays for anything in Europe.

A payment approved by software on somebody’s behalf has no carve-out from the strong customer authentication rules, which were written for a person approving a transaction tied to a named payee and an amount, and Hark has not said whether Hark Pro is available in Europe at all.

(Correction: this article originally gave the number of browsers Handoff can run as 36. Hark says it is six. Updated 6 October 2026.)

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