Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and…
Akka Tests Spec-Driven AI Delivery Across 65 Open Source Projects
Akka used 65 open source projects to test a spec driven workflow for AI assisted software porting, measuring…
Benchmark’s full partnership joins the main stage at Disrupt 2026
What does one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture firms think founders are getting wrong? At TechCrunch Disrupt…
Kitematic founders nab $65 million USD to help devs run open-source AI locally with Ollama
The open-source AI developer tool has grown to nearly nine million users.
Canadian-founded, Palo Alto-based software startup…
AI Data Labeler Mercor In Talks To Raise $500 Million At $20 Billion Valuation
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Cody Pickens for Forbes Mercor, the AI data labeling firm founded by the world’s…
SpaceX Investments Now Dominate The 10 Best VC Checks Of All Time
Gwynne Shotwell and SpaceX executives at Nasdaq on the day of the company’s historic IPO. AFP via Getty…
Former Benchmark Investors Lazarte And Fredrickson Aim Big WIth $800 Million AI Fund
Former Coatue investor Kris Fredrickson has teamed up with Victor Lazarte to raise a new $800 million AI…
Exclusive: Eigen raises a seed round from Benchmark to build the world’s first ‘mutual friend’
More than 600 million people watched the moon landing live in 1969. When NASA’s Artemis program returned astronauts…
Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking
Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their…
Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner. This…
Japan borrowing costs seen doubling if benchmark yield surges to 2.5%
Bonds Higher rates a burden on regional banks but boost to household savings If the Bank of Japan…
Code Arena Launches as a New Benchmark for Real-World AI Coding Performance
LMArena has launched Code Arena, a new evaluation platform that measures AI models’ performance in building complete applications…