Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, at present launched its agent Hark Handoff, which might use a browser effectively to finish duties.
The corporate claims that Handoff can simply navigate web sites that haven’t any official APIs, together with Goal, Walmart, OpenTable, and LinkedIn. It mentioned that the Handoff agent seems to be at web site construction and visible information to know if it must click on buttons or kind info.
The premise is just like tons of browser-based brokers launched earlier than. Concern a command, and it’ll full duties for you, together with ordering meals or espresso, reserving journey tickets, submitting returns, searching for necessities, reserving a desk at a restaurant, or researching in your behalf by numerous sources.
In a video demo, the corporate’s CEO, Brett Adcock, confirmed that the assistant can take a command to construct a bouquet with flowers customers specify, together with accommodating fuzzy phrases like “a number of the florist’s alternative.” Notably, the video exhibits solely a part of the method, so we will’t actually gauge its effectiveness.
The corporate mentioned that for this launch, it’s utilizing a post-trained mannequin, and plans to pre-train later this 12 months. Hark mentioned that, with this method, it could refine its information pipeline, coaching infrastructure, and strategies extra shortly. Hark additionally claims that, in contrast to giant language fashions (LLMs) predicting the subsequent token, its mannequin can predict the subsequent motion — which may very well be a clock or a keyboard enter at a particular place.
There are numerous firms engaged on computer-use brokers, together with Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with VC-funded startups engaged on browser-based process automation, comparable to Browser Use, Polar, Strawberry, and Apart.
Hark mentioned that its Handoff agent is quicker than the competitors and in addition prices a lot lower than different fashions like GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. The startup has opened a waitlist for its platform and plans to launch it by the top of the summer season.
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