Brett Adcock has self-funded Hark with $100 million of his own money to build a vertically integrated AI platform combining in-house foundation models, purpose-built hardware, and new interfaces, all designed from scratch together.
The company poached Abidur Chowdhury, the Apple designer credited with leading the iPhone Air, to head product design, a direct signal that Hark is targeting the consumer computing platform, not just another chat interface.
The AI hardware market is projected to grow from $83.4 billion in 2025 to $361.7 billion by 2035, according to Cervicorn Consulting, at a CAGR of 15.8% and Hark enters it before shipping a single product.
When Abidur Chowdhury walked Apple’s stage to introduce the iPhone Air, few expected him to leave within months. He did, after a single meeting with Brett Adcock. Now he is Director of Design at Hark, a San Jose-based AI lab that Adcock founded in late 2025 with $100 million of his own capital and a conviction that every AI product built so far has been wrong.
Hark emerged from eight months of stealth on 24 March 2026. The company has 45 staff on the same campus as Adcock’s other ventures, with headcount targeted at 100 by mid-2026. It has disclosed no product, no price, and no hardware form factor, only a timeline: AI models this summer, native hardware shortly after.
