LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M
LM Arenaa crowdsourced benchmarking project on which large AI Laboratories trust to test and market their AI models, has collected $ 100 million in a seed financing round The organization appreciates that at $ 600 million, according to Bloomberg.
Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) And UC Investments, who manages an investment portfolio for the University of California, led fundraising. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures and Kleiner Perkins also participated.
LM Arena, founded in 2023, has become something of an AI industry obsession. LM Arena, mainly run by UC Berkeley-Lied researchers, cooperates with companies such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to make flagship models available for its community to evaluate.
LM Arena was previously funded by a combination of subsidies and donations, including from Google’s Kaggle Data Science Platform, A16ZAnd together AI. Recently it was accused by some researchers of helping the Top AI Labs game his leaderboard – accusations that LM Arena has violently refused.
