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AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Arena

Arena (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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Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based AI lab building large language models, best known for its Kimi chatbot and open-weight Kimi K series models.

24 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$7B+
ArenaMoonshot AI
Last Valuation
$1.7B
$35B
ArenaMoonshot AI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2023
San Francisco, CA
HQ
Beijing, China
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
Moonshot AI investors
AlibabaTencentHongShan (Sequoia China)IDG CapitalZhenFund5Y CapitalGaorong CapitalMeituan (Long-Z Investments)

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and Moonshot AI.

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