Hark 预览其浏览器使用智能体，称比竞品更快更便宜

Hark：https://hark.com/，一家在 5 月份筹集了 7 亿美元 A 轮融资的初创公司：https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/hark-raises-700m-series-a-for-its-secretive-universal-ai-interface/，今天推出了其代理 Hark Handoff，：https://hark.com/#sign-up，可以高效地使用浏览器完成任务。

公司声称，Handoff可以轻松浏览没有官方API的网站，包括Target、Walmart、OpenTable和LinkedIn。它表示，Handoff代理会查看网站结构和视觉数据，以判断是否需要点击按钮或输入信息。

这个前提与之前发布的许多基于浏览器的代理类似。发出命令，它就会为你完成任务，包括点餐或订咖啡、预订旅行票、报税、购买生活必需品、预定餐厅座位，或通过查看各种来源为你进行研究。

在一个视频演示中，公司CEO Brett Adcock展示了该助手可以接受命令来制作用户指定的花束，同时还能处理模糊的术语，如“花店随意搭配”。值得注意的是，视频只展示了部分过程，因此我们无法真正评估其效果。

公司表示，这次发布使用的是后训练模型，并计划在今年晚些时候进行预训练。Hark表示，通过这种方法，它可以更快地优化数据管道、训练基础设施和技术。Hark还声称，与预测下一个词元的大型语言模型（LLM）不同，其模型可以预测下一步操作——可能是在特定位置的点击或键盘输入。

有许多公司在开发计算机使用代理，包括Google、OpenAI和Anthropic，还有一些获得风投支持的初创公司在进行基于浏览器的任务自动化，如Browser Use：https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/browser-use-one-of-the-tools-powering-manus-is-also-going-viral/，Polar：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/perplexity-employee-who-worked-on-comet-launches-an-ai-browser-aimed-at-knowledge-work/，Strawberry和Aside。

Hark 表示其 Handoff 代理比竞争对手更快，而且成本远低于 GPT 5.5 和 Opus 4.8 等其他模型。该初创公司已为其平台开放了候补名单，并计划在夏季末发布。

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Hark：https://hark.com/, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May：https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/hark-raises-700m-series-a-for-its-secretive-universal-ai-interface/, today launched its agent Hark Handoff,：https://hark.com/#sign-up 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.

The premise is similar to tons of browser-based agents released before. Issue a command, and it will complete tasks for you, including ordering food or coffee, booking travel tickets, filing returns, shopping for essentials, reserving a table at a restaurant, or researching on your behalf by looking at various sources.

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.

The company said that for this release, it’s using a post-trained model, and plans to pre-train later this year. 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.

There are many companies working on computer-use agents, including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with VC-funded startups working on browser-based task automation, such as Browser Use：https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/browser-use-one-of-the-tools-powering-manus-is-also-going-viral/, Polar：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/perplexity-employee-who-worked-on-comet-launches-an-ai-browser-aimed-at-knowledge-work/, Strawberry, and Aside.

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.

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