LMArena Secures $100M in Seed Funding Led by A16z
Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena CEO and Wei-Lin Chiang, LMArena CTO join Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss the company's latest fundraise and launch of a new UI experience built by community feedback. They discuss the need for AI progress through competition live from the Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)
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