Bloomberg Beta

If that lineage argument holds up, licensing new training data doesn't clean a model descended from an unlicensed predecessor, a theory that reaches past Suno to any vendor selling a clean successor built on a prior in-house model's outputs.

Val's AI, seeded by 8VC and Bloomberg Beta, has now raised a $40 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.

It sells paid, confidential benchmarks across law, finance, coding, cybersecurity, and biosecurity, designed as the opposite of public leaderboards that models can train against.

Revenue is up eight times, and headcount has tripled to 25 this year, and OpenAI already cited Val's results in its Astra for Law launch.

Just a seed round with Fathom.

We had a lead investor, which was Bloomberg Beta, which, yeah, I can't speak highly enough of.

The team over there was so supportive and so thoughtful and pushed our thinking in all of the right ways.

And so we were really fortunate to have them on our side.