Vals AI raises $40 million to expand model evaluation

AI evaluator Vals AI has raised a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Vals AI raised $40 million in Series A funding led by a16z, with participation from HRT Ventures, Next Ladder Ventures and existing investors. The company evaluates models on domain-specific tasks in areas including finance, law, healthcare and coding.

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Capital for independent evaluation reflects the shift from asking which model is strongest in general to measuring which systems are reliable for particular economic tasks.

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