On January 8th, according to Bloomberg, last NovemberappleFormer Apple Designer Abidul Chowdhury, who left, who was involved in the operationAbidur Chowdhury_OTHER ORGANISER Startups Hark- As designer。
The company was created last December with $100 million in personal funds by Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, with the goal of launching the first AI model this summer。
Chowdhury joined Apple since 2019 and was seen as a focus for development, introducing the iPhone Air design in the Apple official video. He was internalized as a representative of a new generation of hardware designs, and his departure movement attracted industry attention during the past year。
Adcock also serves as the CEO of Figure AI with Hark. In his internal memo, he states that the current AI model is "not smart enough" and that the equipment to carry AI is still in the "former AI" era。
IN HIS VIEW, THE FUTURE AI NEEDS TO BE PROACTIVE AND ACHIEVE "PEOPLE-CENTRED AI" THROUGH A COMBINATION OF SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE。
According to multiple reports, Hark has dug up more than 30 engineers from Google, Meta, Amazon, and the team is planning to expand to 100 in the first half of this year。
Its computational cluster was on line this week and the first model is expected to be released this summer. In addition, Hark has created the post of Capital Mobilization Manager, indicating that the company is preparing to start a larger scale of financing。
Fish AI under Adcock last year completed over $1 billion in financing, valued at $39 billion, and became the highest-valued human robot company in the world. He said that Hark and Figure AI would develop in parallel, the former being responsible for the "brain" and the latter for building the "body"。