Vals AI, an AI evaluation startup, said it has raised $40 million in Series A funding at a post-money valuation of $400 million. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with existing investors 8VC, Pear VC, and Bloomberg Beta participating again. New investors in the round include HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures. Founded by Rayan Krishnan and Langston Nashold, the company positions itself as an independent evaluator and scorekeeper for large language models. Vals AI works with experts in law, finance, healthcare, and coding to score model outputs in real business settings, while limiting access to its private test sets to reduce benchmark gaming and training directly to the test. The company said its evaluation results have been included in model cards from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, and that enterprise customers use those results to choose models for production deployments. Vals AI also said its 2025 revenue grew 8x year over year, its customer count doubled, its team tripled in six months, and it launched the code evaluation tool Vals Smith, frontier risk evaluations, and Vals Index 2.0 for expanded economic measurement.

Vals AI, a company focused on evaluating AI models, has raised $40 million in a Series A round at a $400 million valuation, according to ChainCatcher. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, with participation from 8VC, Pear VC, Bloomberg Beta, and newer investors including HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures. The company says it uses its own independent evaluation system to assess frontier models released by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, rather than relying on traditional public benchmark tests. That positioning is central to its business as model developers and enterprise users look for ways to compare performance outside widely used public scoring methods. Vals AI plans to use the new capital to expand its evaluation infrastructure. It also intends to launch a testing tool that creates programming benchmarks based on a company’s GitHub codebase. The funding round gives the startup fresh resources to build out both its testing capacity and its product offering for enterprise-oriented model assessment.

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Bitcoin climbed above $60,000 and briefly touched $61,222, helping lift the total crypto market capitalization back above $2 trillion as major digital assets posted weekend gains.

Bitcoin climbed above $60,000 and briefly hit $61,222, helping lift the total cryptocurrency market above $2 trillion as major assets including ether, BNB, and XRP posted strong gains.

Bitcoin briefly rose to $61,222 over the weekend, helping lift the total cryptocurrency market above $2 trillion as ether, BNB, XRP, and other major tokens also posted gains.

Bitcoin briefly climbed to $61,222 over the weekend, helping lift the total crypto market above $2 trillion. Ethereum, BNB, XRP, and several other major tokens also posted gains, signaling broad-based market strength.