Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Startup Hark has launched 'Handoff,' a browser-based AI agent designed to automate complex tasks like shopping and booking by navigating websites without official APIs. The company claims its model is faster and more cost-effective than current large language models by predicting actions rather than just text tokens.
Why it matters
The development of 'computer-use' agents represents a significant step toward autonomous digital assistants capable of performing multi-step tasks across the web.
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.
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.
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