Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

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.
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Published2 h ago (Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:19:45 GMT)
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AuthorJulie Bort