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TechCrunch 1 month 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Vals, a 2024 AI benchmarking startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised a $40 million series A to replace outdated evaluation methods with industry-task and impact-focused testing.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.
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19 October 2026
Amazon’s biggest push against Nvidia this year landed today in the form of TorchNeuron, an AWS development tool designed to let PyTorch-based AI apps run on its Trainium chips with a one-line configuration change instead of a code rewrite. AWS says roughly 85% of AI apps use PyTorch, and that number matters because it turns the usual “porting tax” into a packaging decision: keep writing in PyTorch, switch the backend, move on. The company also plans upstream PyTorch changes to make the framework more hardware-agnostic, aiming to loosen the gravity that keeps developers clustered around specific accelerator ecosystems—an underappreciated lever in enterprise spending, where platform lock-in often lasts longer than model lifecycles.
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