Vals AI has raised $40 million in Series A funding at a valuation of $400 million, led by a16z.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that AI model evaluation company Vals AI has announced the completion of a $40 million Series A funding round at a $400 million valuation. The round was led by a16z, with participation from 8VC, Pear VC, Bloomberg Beta, HRT Ventures, and Next Ladder Ventures. The new funding will be used to expand its evaluation infrastructure and launch testing tools that create programming benchmarks based on enterprise GitHub repositories. Vals AI uses an independent system to evaluate cutting-edge models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, rather than using traditional public benchmarks. Its team members primarily come from companies like NVIDIA, Meta, and Palantir. (Techfundingnews)