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ArenaArena (formerly LMArena, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley) operates the crowdsourced leaderboard and evaluation platform used industry-wide to benchmark and rank AI models.
3 Pulse stories
HF
Hugging FaceOpen-source AI platform and hosting hub where developers build, share, and deploy machine learning models and datasets.
9 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$3.2B
ArenaHugging Face
Last Valuation
$1.7B
$13.5B
ArenaHugging Face
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2016
San Francisco, CA
HQ
New York, NY / Paris, France
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
Hugging Face investors
Salesforce VenturesGoogleAmazonNvidiaAMDIntelSequoiaLux Capital
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