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Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 16
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| Oct 19, 2026 | Pear VC Raises $333 Million Fund V To Back Founders Before The Market Does | Pear VC has closed a $333 million Fund V, bringing the early-stage venture firm’s total assets under management to more than $1.1 billion and giving it additional capital to invest primarily in pre-seed and seed-stage startups. The firm sai... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available with limited-time low API pricing of $2/$10 per 1M token | Google is making its new, flagship Gemini 4 Argon multimodal language AI model broadly available today, October 13. The model was previously available only to a limited group of early testers. Now developers and enterprises are getting a po... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Why Calling ICD-10 a Diagnosis Is Healthcare’s Costliest Design Flaw | Jay Anders, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Medicomp Systems Healthcare software colleagues of mine often describe a recurring discussion they have with their outsourced development teams. They recount that when they try to explain the differe... |
| Oct 11, 2026 | AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlight | The emerging AI safety debate is putting a small group of third-party evaluators at the center of a multitrillion-dollar industry. Nonprofits like METR and Transluce are being called upon to monitor and evaluate models as the federal govern... |
| Oct 8, 2026 | Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release | Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named “Le Chonk” that the Paris AI company says pushes it back toward the global open-weight frontier — with a particular focus on codi... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities | Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Fl... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Vals AI Raises $40M in Series A Funding at $400M Valuation | Vals AI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an artificial intelligence evaluation and model auditing platform, raised $40m in Series A funding at a $400m valuation. The round was led by a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), with participation from... |
| Aug 16, 2026 | Vals AI Raises $40 Million Series A At $400 Million Valuation As Revenue Grows 8x | Vals AI raised a $40 million Series A at a $400 million valuation as the company scales an independent AI evaluation platform that measures how well frontier models perform on real-world professional tasks. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led th... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Vals AI Raises $40M From a16z: Frontier Models Fail 52% of Real Finance Analyst Tasks | By Ryan Cook Published: Aug 14 2026, 10:08 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
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FAQ about Vals AI
How much funding has Vals AI raised?
Vals AI has raised $40M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Vals AI?
Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Vals AI, among them “Pear VC Raises $333 Million Fund V To Back Founders Before The Market Does” (Oct 19, 2026) and “Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available with limited-time low API pricing of $2/$10 per 1M token” (Oct 13, 2026).
Is Vals AI still active?
Yes, Vals AI is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 23, 2026.