WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2026 – Today, Vals AI announced its participation in the reconvened NIST Artificial Intelligence Consortium established within the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Consortium will empower the collaborative establishment of new measurement science that will enable the identification of proven, scalable, and interoperable techniques and metrics to promote the development and use of AI.
“Independent evaluation is essential to measuring AI capabilities, performance, and risks,” said Rayan Krishnan, Co-Founder and CEO of Vals AI. “We look forward to working with NIST and fellow consortium members to advance rigorous, reproducible evaluations that reflect real-world uses of AI and help organizations adopt it with confidence.”
“Policymakers in the United States and around the world need confidence in how AI performs across government and society,” said Glenn Parham, Head of Public Sector at Vals AI. “Independent evaluations give them a common basis for comparing performance and identifying where AI can deliver the most value for their constituents.”
The NIST AI Consortium supports initiatives set forth in the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 and America’s AI Action Plan, published in 2025.
NIST does not evaluate commercial products under this Consortium and does not endorse any product or service used.
About Vals AI
Vals AI is an independent AI evaluation company based in San Francisco that measures AI capabilities, performance, and risks. The company works with domain experts to build benchmarks grounded in real-world tasks, with results cited by frontier AI labs in their model cards. Its research also examines cybersecurity, child safety, and AI’s environmental and economic impacts. Featured in leading news outlets and shared with policymakers in the United States and abroad, this work brings independent evidence to decisions about how AI is developed and used. Learn more at vals.ai/gov.
Details on the Consortium are in NIST’s announcement.