Hark Raises $700M at $6B Valuation for Figure Founder's AI Hardware Venture
Source: TechCrunch ↗
Brett Adcock's AI hardware startup Hark raised over $700 million in a Series A round valuing the company at $6 billion. Hark is building a vertically integrated family of AI hardware devices with co-developed models and interfaces; notably, Hark's models are already being trained on Adcock's Figure AI robots, creating a cross-company embodied-AI data loop.
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