Hark raises $700M Series A for ‘universal’ secretive AI interface.

What will it take to launch the first AI-driven consumer product? Maybe $700 million.

At least according to Hark, an AI lab that is building prototypes and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said Thursday that it has raised that much money in a Series A round that values ​​it at $6 billion after the money.

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

Perhaps the most notable aspect of the fundraising process is how little Hark has revealed What is building. Brett Adcock, founder and CEO, who is 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 agentic AI system that would serve as a global interface with the digital world.

Hark expects to launch its first multimedia models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow this up with devices designed specifically for these systems.

The new money will be spent on hiring top talent in hardware, product design, and artificial intelligence research, and on securing computing and components. The company currently has 70 employees and operates a data center equipped with Nvidia B200 GPUs.

Abidur Chowdhury (pictured above in a promotional video), a former Apple product executive, is the design director at Hark. He declined to reveal new details about what he’s working on when TechCrunch peppered him with questions this week, but he said investors were impressed with a series of demos his team provided.

“I haven’t seen anything that looks like something that would really help as much as the average person,” Chowdhury said, speaking about AI products on the market. “People are already building things to help people make software, and it works, and it’s really impactful, but we haven’t really seen that for the average person yet.”

He noted that while Anthropic is prioritizing programming tools and OpenAI is moving in the same direction ahead of its IPO, few companies are as focused solely on building native interfaces and hardware as is the case with Hark. “With this focus, with this great team that we have, and this tour that we have had, I believe we can achieve something really special in this field,” Chaudhry said.

However, there are more questions than answers. One challenge is providing the context of a customer’s life to an AI assistant without making the people around the user uncomfortable or violating their privacy. Wearables like the current Meta glasses or the upcoming Android glasses don’t seem to have solved this problem. When asked how he squared this particular circle, Chaudhry only smiled.

“This sounds like it would make a great product.”