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Hark raises $700M for AI assistant dream

Is this the AI that finally understands us, or just another echo chamber?

What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said on Thursday that it had raised that much in a Series A round that values it at $6 billion post-money.


The mega round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, and included Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global. (Phew!)


Perhaps what’s most notable about the fundraise is how little Hark has revealed about what it is building. Founder and CEO Brett Adcock, also the entrepreneur behind robotics company Figure.AI and electric aircraft builder Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money to develop an agentic AI system that serves as a universal interface with the digital world.


Hark expects to release its first multi-modal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems. The fresh cash will be spent on recruiting top talent for hardware, product design and AI research, and on securing compute and components.


Hark currently has 70 employees, and runs a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs. Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple product executive, is Hark’s director of design. He declined to reveal new details of what he's working on when TechCrunch peppered him with questions this week, but said investors were impressed by a series of demos from his team.

Original source:  https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/hark-raises-700m-series-a-for-its-secretive-universal-ai-interface/
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