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

By Julie Bort · TechCrunch · Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 18:19 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

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

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