What will it take to launch the first consumer AI product? Maybe $700 million.
At least according to Hark, an artificial intelligence lab that builds models and hardware for a personal artificial intelligence assistant, which said Thursday it had raised so much in a Series A round that values it at $6 billion after money.
The large round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and included Nvidia, 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 remarkable about the fundraising is how little Hark has been open about what he’s building. Founder and CEO Brett Adcock, also the entrepreneur behind robotics company Figure.AI and electric aircraft maker Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money to develop an artificial intelligence system that acts as a universal interface to the digital world.
Hark expects to release its first multimodal 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 these systems.
The new cash will be spent on hiring top talent for hardware, product design and AI research, as well as securing computers and components. The company currently has 70 employees and has a data center with an Nvidia B200 GPU.
Abidur Chowdhury (pictured above in a promotional video), a former Apple product executive, is Hark’s director of design. He declined to reveal new details about what he’s working on when TechCrunch asked him questions this week, but said investors were impressed by a series of demonstrations from his team.
“I haven’t seen anything that looks like something that will actually help like a normal human,” Chowdhury said, speaking of AI products on the market. “People are actually making things to help people make software, and it works, and it’s really impressive, but we haven’t really seen it for the average person yet.”
He noted that while Anthropic prioritizes coding tools and OpenAI is moving in the same direction ahead of its IPO, few companies are as focused solely on building interfaces and native hardware as Hark is. “With this focus, with this great team that we have, and this round that we’ve raised, I think we can do something really special in this space,” Chowdhury said.
However, there are more questions than answers. A challenge will be providing the context of a customer’s life to an AI assistant without making people around the user feel uncomfortable or violating their privacy. Wearables like Meta’s existing glasses or the upcoming Android glasses don’t seem to have solved this problem. When asked how he could square that particular circle, Chowdhury only smiled.
“Sounds like this would be a great product.”
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