Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform provider, secured USD 17 million in its Series A funding round. Glenn Solomon from Notable Capital led the round, with contributions from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Datadog, Gokul Rajaram, and Factorial Capital, among others.

The capital raised will be directed toward scaling Patronus AI's research, engineering, and sales divisions, as well as training evaluation models and formulating new industry standard benchmarks.

Patronus AI aids businesses in detecting errors in LLMs at a large scale. The firm has successfully highlighted wide-ranging safety and accuracy issues present in LLM usage through its timely research. Several Fortune 500 companies are already benefiting from the safe implementation of AI solutions through Patronus AI.

Analyst QuickTake: Patronus AI addresses a primary concern of many enterprises on the behaviors and inaccuracies of LLMs, even as interest in generative AI grows. In January 2024 , Patronus AI also partnered with MongoDB to integrate automated evaluation and testing of LLMs for enterprise clients.