The board “you can’t play,” with the help of the companies that own it

Artificial intelligence models are proliferating, and competition is stiffening. With so many players filling up the space, who would be the best – and who would decide? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as a leading community for LLMs, fundraising, adoption, and PR. In just seven months, the startup went from UC Berkeley PhD research to its value is $1.7 billion.

See if Equity Rebecca Bellan meets the co-founders of Arena Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang about how their platform has become a leader in the AI ​​genre, and how they are trying to establish a neutral brand even though companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are back on the project.

He explains how Arena works and why it’s harder to game than static benchmarks, what “neutrality” means, why Claude is leading the way in legal and medical devices, and how the company is expanding beyond chat to agents, copying, and real-world services with a new business model.

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