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ArenaCrowdsourced AI model evaluation platform, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley, that ranks LLMs via human-preference voting and sells deep-dive model evaluations to AI labs.
2 Pulse stories
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SoftBankJapanese multinational investment holding company and tech conglomerate spanning telecom, the Vision Fund, and major AI infrastructure bets.
2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
ArenaSoftBank
Last Valuation
$1.7B
ArenaSoftBank
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2024
Founded
1981
San Francisco, California
HQ
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Private
Status
Public (9984.T)
Arena investors
FelicisAndreessen HorowitzThe House FundLDVPKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersLaude VenturesUC Investments
SoftBank investors
No investors on record.
Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and SoftBank.