PANews reported on May 21 that AI startup Hark announced the completion of a $700 million funding round, valuing the company at $6 billion post-money. This Series A funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Hark stated that it will use the funds to expand its GPU infrastructure, accelerate the development of large-scale models, grow its team from approximately 70 to 200 engineers, and develop its next-generation AI hardware, aiming to create highly personalized intelligent systems with voice interaction, visual understanding, persistent memory, and advanced personalization capabilities.