- Updated: March 24, 2026
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Former Apple Designer Joins Hark AI to Build a New Multimodal Interface
Hark AI, the stealthy artificial‑intelligence lab founded by Brett Adcock, has announced a major hiring move: former Apple designer Abidur Chowdhury is now leading the creation of a next‑generation AI interface. The company is working on tightly integrated multimodal AI models, custom hardware, and a seamless personal‑intelligence product that remembers user preferences and context over time.
According to the original TechCrunch story, Hark’s vision is to shift user experiences from app‑centric to AI‑driven, where a single “personal AI” can understand text, voice, images, and even gestures. The team, now bolstered by Chowdhury’s design expertise, plans to release its first consumer‑ready model in the summer, featuring proprietary hardware that runs the AI locally for privacy and speed.
The startup has already secured $100 million in seed funding, allowing it to expand its engineering roster and accelerate hardware development. Hark’s approach blends large‑scale model training with on‑device inference, aiming to deliver a persistent memory layer that makes the AI feel like a true personal assistant.
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