Apple Designer Joins AI Startup Hark: $100M Funded, Aggressive Hiring Underway

• Abidur Chowdhury, an industrial designer from Apple, has joined Hark, a new AI startup.
• Hark was founded by Brett Adcock, who also leads Figure AI, and is funded with $100 million of Adcock's personal capital.
• The startup aims to build "human-centric" AI systems that can think proactively and improve recursively.
• Hark has already started aggressive hiring, recruiting about 30 engineers from Google, Meta, and Amazon.
• The company plans to expand its engineering team to around 100 people in the first half of the year.

Why It Matters: Apple designer Abidur Chowdhury joins new AI startup Hark, backed by $100M and aggressive talent acquisition.