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Vals AI

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What they do

Independent testing of models on real-world work, publishing benchmarks across coding, finance, law and more.

Offerings
Evals & benchmarks
Task domains
FinanceLegalCoding
Data sources
Expert-made
Funding & status

$40M Series A at $400M led by a16z (Aug 2026); earlier $5M seed.

Sources (3)
  1. vals.ai · Vendor homepage
  2. vals.ai · Funding source
  3. a16z.com · Funding source
Last checked

2026-10-15

Funding status

Funding disclosed

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