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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
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KyutaiA Paris-based nonprofit AI research lab focused on open-science multimodal and voice AI models (creator of the Moshi voice model, and progenitor of spinout Gradium).
2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$330M
ArenaKyutai
Last Valuation
$1.7B
ArenaKyutai
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2023
San Francisco, CA
HQ
Paris, France
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
Kyutai investors
Iliad Group (Xavier Niel)CMA CGM Group (Rodolphe Saadé)Schmidt Futures (Eric Schmidt)
Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and Kyutai.