Vals AI has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build independent evaluation benchmarks for AI models, targeting the gap between standardized test performance and real…
DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813 model scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra by 4 points and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 by 7 points, while ranking 12th on the Vals …
XAI and Databricks announced a partnership on June 18 at the 2026 Data + AI Summit to integrate Grok models natively into Databricks' Agent Bricks platform, targeting enterprise document understanding…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash 0731 model scored 82.7% (±1.79 SE) on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ranking second overall behind Anthropic's Claude Code with Fable 5 at 83.8% (±1.16 SE), according to Ante's public benchma…
Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, making it the largest open-weight model ever. The model activates 50 billion parameters per token and a…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to Opus 4.8, but benchmark data shows reasoning effort peaks at medium for coding tasks,…
Vals AI launched Vals-Smith on July 22nd, a tool that converts a GitHub repository's merged pull requests into a private benchmark for testing coding models and agents. The product addresses the probl…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, on July 16th, with open weights to follow on July 27th. The model ranks #2 on the Vals AI index and #3 on Artificial An…
Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 on 2026-07-16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 896 total experts and 16 active per token, achieving an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score…
XAI's Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering configurable reasoning effort, a 1 million token context window, and tool use for building agents. The model runs on Mantle, Amazo…
A user reports inconsistent benchmark scores for Muse Spark 1.1, citing an 80 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and a 69.29 from Vals AI, raising doubts about the reliability of AI benchmarks.…