Vals AI, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, wants to be the gold standard for AI benchmarks
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-19
TechCrunch reports that Vals AI, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is building a more neutral and trustworthy AI benchmarking service. As the industry is flooded with noisy, vendor-skewed model evaluations, Vals aims to become the gold standard for measuring how models perform on real-world, domain-specific tasks.
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