Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced the establishment of a new AI lab called Hark, dedicated to developing advanced personal intelligence that integrates multimodal models with customized hardware. Hark has been operating in stealth for 8 months with an initial investment of $100 million, and plans to launch new AI devices with the first set of models expected to be released this summer. The team has recruited talent from Apple, Meta, and other companies, and is collaborating with NVIDIA to leverage GPUs for model training.

OpenRouter launched two anonymous models, Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha, on March 12, both available for free. Hunter Alpha is a 1 trillion parameter text model focused on long-term planning and complex reasoning; Healer Alpha is a multimodal model supporting visual and audio inputs. The community has various speculations about the identities of these models, but no official confirmation has been provided.

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