Discussion

• @nikilravi Nikil Ravi on x

  Boom! It has been a blast being a part of this journey for the past year. @RayanKrishnan and @langstonnashold are incredibly hardworking and talented people and it has been a pleasure to work with them and everyone else in the @ValsAI team. With everyone attempting to build one

• @jamescham James Cham on x

  The best way to hold the AI industry accountable AND for the AI industry to thrive is to have an independent, trusted evaluator. Excited to see @langstonnashold @RayanKrishnan and the whole @valsai team play that vital role...

• @a16z @a16z on x

  We're thrilled to invest in Vals. A frontier model can look brilliant on a leaderboard and still struggle with the messy work that actually matters in the real world. @ValsAI takes a fundamentally different approach to evaluation: test models on the work people actually want

• @pearvc @pearvc on x

  Congrats to @ValsAI on their $40M Series A! Proud to have first partnered with @RayanKrishnan and @langstonnashold at pre-seed when they joined PearX S23 and even more excited to double down on what's ahead. Let's go! 🚀🚀🚀

• @stuffyokodraws Yoko on x

  We are excited to partner with the @ValsAI team! Vals test models on the work people actually want them to do with differentiated benchmarks and will continue to define the frontier

• @shravangreddy Shravan Reddy on x

  In early 2023, two Stanford students pitched an idea built around one question: what can AI models actually do? ChatGPT had just launched and the word “evals” did not exist. It seemed highly implausible that anyone would use, let alone pay for them. We backed @RayanKrishnan and

• @marimo_io Marimo on x

  Recursive self-improvement is the next frontier in AI We're thrilled to be partnering with Vals on their RSI index and excited to show an early preview of the work we've been doing together. Stay tuned for more!

• @iaindunning Iain Dunning on x

  Congrats to Vals team and especially former HRT intern @langstonnashold on their raise! It's under discussed but an essential part of quant is just measuring and understanding the current situation, let alone saying something about the future. Vals is the “rating agency” for AI

• @jenniferhli Jennifer Li on x

  Super pumped to partner with Vals AI team on this journey to build the ratings agency for the AI era. @RaghuRaghuram @stuffyokodraws @shangdaxu and the entire AI Infra team are very excited to be working with the Vals team!!

• @jenniferhli Jennifer Li on x

  1/ We're thrilled to announce our investment in @ValsAI. AI has gotten very good at taking tests and winning trophies. However, it's still hard to prove it can actually do the work. That shift creates an enormous need for a trusted, independent evaluation layer.

• @rayankrishnan Rayan Krishnan on x

  Glad to announce our Series A, bringing on some incredible partners to support us in solving one of the fundamental problems in AI.

• @pejmannozad Pejman Nozad on x

  We backed @RayanKrishnan and @langstonnashold of @ValsAI (PearX S23) out of their dorm room! Congrats on raising $40M series A from @a16z @8vc and of course @pearvc !🚀

• @langstonnashold Langston Nashold on x

  Almost seven years ago, @RayanKrishnan and I met on a pre-orientation backpacking trip. He would end up being one of the most intelligent people I would meet in undergrad. Post-graduation, I was going to take an offer at HRT, and he was preparing to apply to PhD programs.

• @spicey_lemonade @spicey_lemonade on x

  Excited to be part of this. People often invoke Goodhart's Law to argue that evals lose their value once created. But if we want to automate every economically valuable job, like the AI labs claim, we're going to have to evaluate every economically valuable job. From ARC-AGI

• @shayanshafii Shayan on x

  Congrats @RayanKrishnan and the @ValsAI team on the huge raise! In the last year at Cognition we've already seen frontier benchmarks expire with each new model release. As the models continue to push the frontier of capabilities further out, new benchmarks are needed to keep

• @valsai @valsai on x

  Today we're announcing our $40M Series A at a $400M valuation, led by @a16z , with participation from existing investors @8vc, @pearvc, and @BloombergBeta and new investors @HRTVentures and @nextladder. Alongside the fundraise, three more announcements: - Vals Smith: is now [imag…