Overview
- The funding was co-led by Felicis and UC Investments with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, The House Fund, LDVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Laude Ventures.
- LMArena runs a crowdsourced, blind comparison platform for large language and multimodal models, including offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Grok.
- The company reports more than 5 million monthly users across roughly 150 countries generating about 60 million conversations each month.
- Its commercial service, AI Evaluations, launched in September and reached a company-reported annualized consumption rate of about $30 million by December.
- LMArena says it will put the new capital into platform operations, technical hiring and research, while continuing to reject competitors’ claims that vendor ties bias its benchmarks.