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Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
Publisher description: The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
TechCrunch | Oct 8, 2026 | Julie Bort
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Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised a $200 million Series B round at a $3. 1 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Arena previously announced a $150 million Series A in January at a $1. 7 billion post-money valuation. Arena is stepping into that role today,” it added.
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