Current phones and computers are fundamentally the wrong interface for AI—they were designed 20 years ago and are 'complete rubbish' for AI use cases, so entirely new device form factors are needed.
Adcock argues that smartphones and laptops are antiquidated interfaces for AI, and Hark is designing radically new hardware to replace them—an AI operating system on purpose-built devices. ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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You have like um AI over here and a human and you have like an old hardware system in between like a call like a MacBook or iPhone. They were designed 20 years ago. They're complete rubbish for AI. They're not the right interface. So, we went out and we are out there designing what we think comes like after the iPhone for AI... We're designing what we think are the next generation of AI devices that will kill the phone and computer.
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9:56we are out there designing what we think comes like after the iPhone for AI. And it's like an upgrade cycle. We see this all the time in startups. You guys see it, right? Like we're we're in an upgrade cycle with the computers and phones. They're just going to go away. They're going to be a new ones. They're going to be all AI computers and phones and systems and they're going to be
10:12great. They're going to be all real time. You can always access them and you want they'll always be like understanding what's happening. They'll always be able to reference things what's going on. You'll be able to abstract away most apps. You'll probably not have an app store. or you probably have an AI operating system. Uh it'll be perfect for you. You'll ultimately have your own weights on your own devices
10:28that you'll own and have with you everywhere you go. It'll be like a really great uh pairing. And we hired an incredible team. Teams like you know maybe like 80 or 90 now. Uh the guy that leads uh hardware design ABS previously designed for last several generations of iPhone, MacBook, MacBook Pro. Like he's just like the he's a stud. He's great. So, we're designing what we think are
10:50the next generation of AI devices that will kill the phone and computer. And then, uh, we're designing the next generation of AI models. The models need to get a lot more multi multimodal. They need to get a lot more expressive. Like the text encoding is just not enough for us to like really have a like a like a real AGI feeling with AI. So, we're working on that. We have our first AI
11:07pre we did our first research preview or computer using agent that we came out last last week. I think we were like top on some of like the leading like, you know, browser computer use benchmarks in the world. And uh it'll keep getting better. This will keep getting better and better. Like every month we'll just like it'll be better and smarter using a computer and faster. We're working on a
11:23couple other different types of technologies internally on the AI side. And then we'll launch the ability to use HARK on like traditional browser and iPhone and Android in about a month. So um you'll be able to start using it and then we'll have hardware coming. Um we're working on now. We actually have a hardware in the lab now we're using testing and it's it's crazy [ __ ] Like
11:40the stuff is like a sci-fi movie hardware. >> What do you think those devices look like? You know, people have been speculating because Johnny Ive, you know, got his his his shop got acquired by OpenAI and you've seen the videos of the puck and then the like this little puck and then there's like an earring. I don't know if that's real or if that's fake. There was like a leaked commercial