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March 18, 2026

The leaderboard “you can't game,” funded by the companies it ranks

Watch as Arena’s founders join Equity to explain how their platform became the go-to benchmark for AI models and what’s next beyond chatbots.

The leaderboard “you can't game,” funded by the companies it ranks

TL;DR

  • Arena has rapidly become the de facto public leaderboard for AI models, influencing the industry.
  • The startup, originating from a UC Berkeley PhD project, achieved a $1.7 billion valuation in seven months.
  • Co-founders Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang discussed Arena's neutral benchmarking approach and its advantages over static benchmarks.
  • The platform is expanding to benchmark agents, coding, and real-world tasks with a new enterprise product.
  • Claude is currently leading expert leaderboards for legal and medical use cases on Arena.

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