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Friday, 14 August 2026

a16z leads $40M Vals AI round at $400M valuation to test AI on real-world tasks

Tech Funding News 2 months ago 18

Vals AI raised a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $400 million valuation to measure AI performance on real-world tasks. Its evaluation work includes automated, private test sets that are run in limited numbers, and it turns around results within hours of getting access to a new model. The funding and product launches (including Vals Smith, frontier-risk benchmarks, and Vals Index 2.0) expand its independent scoring infrastructure and broaden its measurement as models improve.

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