what it is building<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\nHark 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 those systems.<\/p>\n
The fresh cash will be spent on recruiting top talent for hardware, product design, and AI research, and on securing compute and components. The company currently has 70 employees and runs a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs.<\/p>\n
Abidur Chowdhury (pictured above in a promo video), a former Apple product executive, is Hark\u2019s director of design. He declined to reveal new details of what he\u2019s working on when TechCrunch peppered him with questions this week but said investors were impressed by a series of demos from his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything that feels like something that will really help like the normal person,\u201d Chowdhury said, speaking of the AI products on the market. \u201cPeople are really building things to help people make software, and it\u2019s working, and it\u2019s really impactful, but we haven\u2019t really seen that for the normal person yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted that while Anthropic is prioritizing coding tools and OpenAI is moving in the same direction ahead of its IPO, few companies are focused solely on building interfaces and native hardware the way Hark is. \u201cWith this focus, with this great team that we have, and this round that we\u2019ve raised, I think we can make something really special in this space,\u201d Chowdhury said.<\/p>\n
Still, there are more questions than answers. One challenge will be providing the context of a customer\u2019s life to an AI assistant without making the people around the user uncomfortable or violating their privacy. Wearables like Meta\u2019s existing glasses or the forthcoming Android spectacles don\u2019t seem to have solved this problem. When asked how he might square this particular circle, Chowdhury only smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cSounds like that would make a great product.\u201d<\/p>\n
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