{"id":670718,"date":"2025-05-22T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lm-arena-the-organization-behind-popular-ai-leaderboards-lands-100m\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:45:19","slug":"lm-arena-the-organization-behind-popular-ai-leaderboards-lands-100m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lm-arena-the-organization-behind-popular-ai-leaderboards-lands-100m\/","title":{"rendered":"LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lmarena.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LM Arena<\/a>, a crowdsourced benchmarking project that major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-21\/lmarena-goes-from-academic-project-to-600-million-startup#selection-1525.193-1525.260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has raised $100 million in a seed funding round<\/a> that values the organization at $600 million, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/NMYgt\/https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/3382804Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)<\/a>\u00a0and UC Investments, which manages an investment portfolio for the University of California, led the fundraising. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins also participated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 2023, LM Arena has become something of an AI industry obsession. Primarily run by UC Berkeley-affiliated researchers, LM Arena has partnered with companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to make flagship models available for its community to evaluate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LM Arena was previously funded through a combination of grants and donations, including from Google\u2019s Kaggle data <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> platform,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/announcing-our-latest-open-source-ai-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a16z<\/a>, and\u00a0Together AI. Recently, it\u2019s been accused by some researchers of helping top AI labs <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> its leaderboard \u2014 accusations that LM Arena has vehemently denied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)\u00a0and UC Investments, which manages an investment portfolio for the University of California, led the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-115805871.jpg?resize=1200,867","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,151533,74839,151418,155563,70917],"class_list":["post-670718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-a16z","tag-fundraising","tag-in-brief","tag-lm-arena","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}