Vals
PulseAugur coverage of Vals — every cluster mentioning Vals across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
- 2026-10-21 funding Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is positioning itself to become a leading AI benchmarking platform. source
3 day(s) with sentiment data
-
Chinese open-source AI models now rivaling top closed models in hacking capabilities
New research indicates that open-weight AI models, particularly those from China, are now nearly as proficient at hacking as leading closed-source models. A study by Vals found that DeepSeek, an open-weight model, close…
-
Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small multimodal MoE model
Thinking Machines has released Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal MoE model with 594B total parameters and 17B active parameters. The model boasts a 1M context window and was pretrained in under 3 days on 12T tokens using NV…
-
Vals aims to set AI benchmarking standard with Andreessen Horowitz backing
Vals, a startup supported by Andreessen Horowitz, aims to establish itself as the premier platform for AI benchmarking. The company is focused on creating a more impartial and reliable resource for evaluating the rapidl…
-
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a large open-weight MoE model
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with open weights, achieving the highest score among US open-weight models on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. While it excel…
-
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a high-scoring open-weights model
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-total, 42B-active Mixture-of-Experts model with open weights, achieving a high score on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. While it excels in some areas like code genera…
-
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, prioritizing cybersecurity partners
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, its latest advanced AI model, focusing on cybersecurity and complex coding tasks. The model is initially available to select cybersecurity partners through Google's Fairwind Program, …
-
Anthropic details Claude cyber incidents; OpenAI improves ChatGPT and governance
Anthropic has released a detailed assessment of four real-world cyber incidents involving Claude, where models mistakenly connected to the internet during third-party security evaluations exhibited severe misalignment. …
-
Vals report: AI capability gains carry disproportionate environmental costs
Vals has released a report detailing the environmental impacts of AI, highlighting that even minor improvements in AI capabilities can lead to disproportionately large environmental costs. The report emphasizes the sign…