BlockBeats News, May 21st - AI startup Hark announced the completion of a $700 million funding round, with a post-money valuation of $6 billion. This round is a Series A financing led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and others.

Hark will use this funding to expand its GPU infrastructure, accelerate large model research and development, grow its team from about 70 to 200 engineers, and develop next-generation AI hardware in-house. The goal is to build a personal intelligent system that is capable of voice interaction, visual understanding, persistent memory, and high personalization.