Vals raises $40M Series A led by a16z to fix AI benchmarking

AI benchmarking startup Vals raised a $40M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in 2024, it aims to provide neutral, trustworthy evaluations, arguing legacy academic benchmarks fail to keep pace with frontier models. Its seed round was led by 8VC and Bloomberg Beta.

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