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Vals AI is an AI benchmarking and evaluation company that independently tests models on economically valuable real-world tasks, including software, finance, law, cybersecurity and other frontier-risk areas. It develops and runs its own evaluations, publishes benchmark results and model comparisons through the Vals Index and specialized benchmarks such as finance-agent, Excel-modeling, tax-agent and legal evaluations, and reports performance alongside cost, latency and token usage. The videos also describe Val Smith, an internal-tooling product that evaluates models against a firm's actual GitHub work to help choose models and reduce token spending.

Salesforce Ventures is Salesforce’s corporate venture capital arm, investing in enterprise technology companies from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2009, it provides capital along with founder networking, early product feedback, strategic partnerships, customer introductions, mentorship, and access to Salesforce platforms and executives. Its investment focus has expanded from the Salesforce ecosystem and enterprise software to security, artificial intelligence, frontier AI, physical AI, and robotics.

The Vault is Bridgewater Associates’ internal data platform for indexing, organizing, and serving more than 100 million unstructured documents from external sources, as well as the firm’s memos and meeting transcripts. The material is cleaned, permissioned, and tagged to Bridgewater’s internal ontology for use by human investors and software agents. Its search system is designed to support both investor queries and agent workflows, with fast filtering across the document collection. Bridgewater developed a hand-built benchmark to improve search precision at the top 10 results from about 60% to more than 90%. The platform also supports analyst research, forecasts, signals, and proactive agents that surface relevant information to investors.

Vorflux is an AI software-engineering and workplace-automation platform from Vorflux that runs long-lived coding agents in the cloud and persistent AutoBots in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Its coding workflow covers environment setup, planning, dependency-aware task orchestration, multi-agent implementation, browser and device testing, recordings, staging evidence, independent code review, and a merge queue. AutoBots are assigned a goal, role, owner, chat channel, tools, and a spending budget. They plan, design, build, test, and review work on an ongoing basis, starting from signals such as customer-call transcripts, monitoring alerts, failing CI builds, repository changes, analytics, or cloud-cost data. Example bots include on-call triage, security review, build repair, documentation, latency investigation, migration monitoring, and product analysis; the interface shows their decisions and requests for approval in a home channel.

Investor Workbench is Bridgewater Associates' proactive agent experience for investors. It continuously tracks matters relevant to each investor, surfaces topics requiring attention, and provides agent-generated summaries with supporting evidence and links for further investigation. Learnings from the experience are captured back into Bridgewater's Vault, its permissioned research repository.