Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks. The company claims that Handoff can easily navigate websites that have no official APIs, including Target, Walmart, OpenTable, and LinkedIn. It said that the Handoff agent looks at website structure and visual data to understand if it needs to click buttons or type information.
Hark said that, with this approach, it can refine its data pipeline, training infrastructure, and techniques more quickly. Hark also claims that, unlike large language models (LLMs) predicting the next token, its model can predict the next action — which could be a clock or a keyboard input at a specific place. The company said that for this release, it’s using a post-trained model, and plans to pre-train later this year. In a video demo, the company’s CEO, Brett Adcock, showed that the assistant can take a command to build a bouquet with flowers users specify, along with accommodating fuzzy terms like “some of the florist’s choice.” Notably, the video shows only part of the process, so we can’t really gauge its effectiveness.
Hark said that its Handoff agent is faster than the competition and also costs much less than other models like GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. The startup has opened a waitlist for its platform and plans to release it by the end of the summer. Topics AI, AI, ai agent, browser agent When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Ivan Mehta Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. You can contact or verify outreach from Ivan by emailing im.com or via encrypted message at ivan.42 on Signal. View Bio October 13 – 15 San Francisco Scale faster. Grow your portfolio. Gain practical expertise. No matter your goal, Disrupt can empower you.Save up to $330 today! REGISTER NOW Most Popular Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B Ivan Mehta Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip Dominic-Madori Davis Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics Julie Bort Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School Anthony Ha YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ Anthony Ha WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses Ivan Mehta Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M Jagmeet Singh
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