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

What’s going to it take to launch the primary must-have AI shopper product? Perhaps $700 million.

No less than in response to Hark, an AI lab constructing fashions and {hardware} for an AI private assistant, which stated on Thursday that it had raised that a lot in a Sequence A spherical that values it at $6 billion post-money.

The mega-round was led by Parkway Enterprise Capital and included Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Make investments, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack World. (Phew!)

Maybe what’s most notable in regards to the fundraise is how little Hark has revealed about what it’s constructing. Founder and CEO, Brett Adcock, additionally the entrepreneur behind robotics firm Determine.AI and electrical plane builder Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his personal cash to develop an agentic AI system that serves as a common interface with the digital world.

Hark expects to launch its first multimodal fashions this summer season, which it says will energy a private AI platform that works with current services and products. The corporate expects to comply with that with {hardware} gadgets constructed particularly for these methods.

The contemporary money can be spent on recruiting high expertise for {hardware}, product design, and AI analysis, and on securing compute and elements. The corporate at the moment has 70 workers and runs a knowledge heart with Nvidia B200 GPUs.

Abidur Chowdhury (pictured above in a promo video), a former Apple product government, is Hark’s director of design. He declined to disclose new particulars of what he’s engaged on when Trendster peppered him with questions this week however stated buyers had been impressed by a collection of demos from his crew.

“I haven’t seen something that seems like one thing that may actually assist like the conventional individual,” Chowdhury stated, talking of the AI merchandise available on the market. “Individuals are actually constructing issues to assist individuals make software program, and it’s working, and it’s actually impactful, however we haven’t actually seen that for the conventional individual but.”

He famous that whereas Anthropic is prioritizing coding instruments and OpenAI is transferring in the identical route forward of its IPO, few firms are targeted solely on constructing interfaces and native {hardware} the way in which Hark is. “With this focus, with this nice crew that we’ve, and this spherical that we’ve raised, I believe we will make one thing actually particular on this house,” Chowdhury stated.

Nonetheless, there are extra questions than solutions. One problem can be offering the context of a buyer’s life to an AI assistant with out making the individuals across the consumer uncomfortable or violating their privateness. Wearables like Meta’s current glasses or the forthcoming Android spectacles don’t appear to have solved this downside. When requested how he may sq. this explicit circle, Chowdhury solely smiled.

“Seems like that will make an awesome product.”