[dk8996]

Seems like they just raised 150m at 1.7B valuation. Crazy.

[minimaxir]

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/lmarena-lands-1-7b-valuati...

[koakuma-chan]

Who? LMArena? That's actually crazy.

[echelon]

Are they selling:

A. model improvement tests, suites, and benchmarks

B. data on competitors' evals

C. test answer keys

D. alpha to VC firms

E. all of the above

???

[koakuma-chan]

Apparently they are selling model evaluations, powered by their volunteer users.

[Y_Y]

I'm taking the Red Cross public next. With the price of healthcare these days my earnings projections are uber-extreme.

[ares623]

They're selling "I'm an AI investor" stickers to show off at the next family reunion