Hark, the startup run by Figure AI's Brett Adcock, launched Hark Pro free on web, iOS and Android, with $20 and $100 monthly plans for 2x and 10x usage. The paid plans buy more use of an agent that works in the background, so buying one depends on which errands it handles better than a person would.
Perspective Coverage
6 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 38%
- Investor
- Investor 34%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
buildConfirmed3 publishers Brett Adcock says Hark launches this week and gives its first 100,000 sign-ups the paid plan free. What each user connects at sign-up decides how far one agent reaches into their inbox, calendar and payment accounts.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 50%
- Operator
- Operator 28%
- Investor
- Investor 22%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
Figure melted its retired Figure 02 humanoids in a Finnish steel furnace to protect its actuator designs, after US and Mexican foundries turned them away. Teams shipping proprietary hardware with batteries inside now have reason to plan disposal before launch.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 38%
- Operator
- Operator 39%
- Investor
- Investor 23%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher Adcock previews Figure's F.04 hands as a bet on mechanical complexity
Figure CEO Brett Adcock previewed the F.04 humanoid's hands on October 3, arguing that capable manipulation may require more mechanical complexity. For now the post sets a design direction, and outsiders can test it only after Figure publishes specs and repeatable task results.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
The floor on Figure's compute commitment is about twice all the equity it has disclosed raising, and the vendor writing that contract now owns a piece of the customer owing it. Whether the $3.5bn is take-or-pay is undisclosed.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives86
- Confidence62
The contract value is public and the size of Nscale's stake in Figure is not, which leaves anyone reading a $51bn backlog ahead of a US listing unable to tell how much of that line the seller helped pay for.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+44
- Incentives86
- Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher Figure sizes its humanoid training run at up to 1,389 Vera Rubin racks
Figure is buying compute the way a frontier lab buys it. The announcements skip the numbers that matter most: how much of the ceiling the initial money covers, and how many megawatts Barstow will draw.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives76
- Confidence57
buildOne report1 publisher Figure is buying its data moat by the minute, and it just published the price
Index pays crowd contributors for first-person household video. Figure's own figures put contributor spend near $3.75m a month, and they do not reconcile into an hourly wage.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption54
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives82
- Confidence46