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[Vals AI Completes $40 Million Series A Financing, Valuation Reaches $400 Million] According to TechTimes, Vals AI has completed a $40 million Series A financing round at a valuation of $400 million, led by a16z, with participation from 8VC, Pear VC, Bloomberg Beta, HRT Ventures, and Next Ladder Ventures. Vals AI leverages an independent system to evaluate cutting-edge models launched by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI. The new funds will be used to build evaluation infrastructure and launch testing tools for creating programming benchmarks based on enterprise GitHub code repositories.