Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet

Figure AI and Hark CEO Brett Adcock. Bloomberg/Getty Images Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock's new startup, Hark, has raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation. The AI lab builds personalized AI models and hardware devices. Hark enters a crowded field, competing with OpenAI, Apple, Google, and Meta to build AI devices. While Figure AI's humanoid robots were sorting packages for millions of viewers, the startup's CEO was preparing his next AI hardware act. Hark, a San Jose-based AI lab founded...