Brett Adcock Says Hark Has "Sci-Fi Movie Hardware" in the Lab, AGI Needs More Multimodality
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-08-19
Figure founder Brett Adcock revealed that AI startup Hark already has hardware in the lab—"sci-fi movie hardware" in his words—and is building a much more multimodal version alongside it. Computer use is improving month over month, with browser, iPhone and Android access coming next.
The author appreciates how Brett talks about AI without getting lost in MCP, agent frameworks, or tokenomics: current models are optimized for text and coding but feel stale in daily use, and achieving a real "AGI feeling" requires far more multimodality and expressiveness. The author adds that OpenAI is moving the right direction, and Claude feels unusually expressive—though sometimes more like reward-hacked personalness than deep intelligence.
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