What does it take to create the first truly indispensable AI consumer product? Perhaps $700 million. That’s the bet behind Hark, an AI lab focused on developing both models and hardware for a personal assistant. On Thursday, the company announced it had raised that amount in a Series A round, achieving a post-money valuation of $6 billion. The massive funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and TamarackGlobal.

What stands out most about this fundraising is how little Hark has disclosed about what it’s actually building. Founder and CEO Brett Adcock—who previously launched robotics company Figure AI and electric aircraft maker Archer—started Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money. His goal: create an agentic AI system that acts as a universal interface for the digital world. Hark plans to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will drive a personal AI platform compatible with existing products and services. The company then intends to follow up with dedicated hardware devices built specifically for those systems. The fresh capital will go toward recruiting top talent in hardware, product design, and AI research, as well as securing compute resources and components. Hark currently has 70 employees and operates a data center equipped with Nvidia B200 GPUs. Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple product executive, serves as Hark’s director of design.

“I haven’t seen anything that feels like something that will really help like the normal person,” Chowdhury said, referring to current AI products on the market. “People are really building things to help people make software, and it’s working, and it’s really impactful, but we haven’t really seen that for the normal person yet.”

He noted that while Anthropic is prioritizing coding tools and OpenAI is moving in a similar direction ahead of its IPO, few companies are solely dedicated to building interfaces and native hardware the way Hark is. “With this focus, with this great team that we have, and this round that we’ve raised, I think we can make something really special in this space,” Chowdhury said.

Still, there are more questions than answers. One major challenge will be providing an AI assistant with the context of a customer’s life without making those around them uncomfortable or violating their privacy. Wearables like Meta’s existing glasses or the upcoming Android spectacles don’t seem to have solved this problem. When asked how he might address this particular dilemma, Chowdhury only smiled. “Sounds like that would make a great product.”