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TechCrunch 4 weeks ago 32
Vals, a 2024 AI benchmarking startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised a $40 million series A to replace outdated evaluation methods with industry-task and impact-focused testing. The financing is led by Andreessen Horowitz. As a result, Vals will expand staffing from 8 to 25 and plans to relocate while also evaluating models for federal agencies.
Latent Space 4 weeks ago 4 ● 19 sources
Jev’s launch drew 36M views in two days, prompting immediate speculation and the release of 6 Jev-like clones. The biggest concrete details include LayaJev’s 421M parameters and reported faster inference in the ecosystem. The result is a shift toward discriminative “System 1” decision/workflow control models, with integrations and standards (like AGENTS.md) spreading alongside debate over benchmarks and evaluation.
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18 October 2026
DeepSeek kept one foot on the gas. Its updated DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 went live across web, mobile, and the existing deepseek-flash API model ID, with the same pricing while it improves performance: DeepSWE v1.1 resolution rises to 77% of tasks from 74.2%, and DeepSeek says it finishes work faster. It also bundled something more practical than another benchmark brag—an accompanying developer search API backed by its own engine, with Terminal-Bench 4.0 moving from 31.2 to 42.3 and billing that stays at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. The subtext for builders is familiar: as agent workflows spread, retrieval cost and reliability matter as much as raw model IQ.
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