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Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang, Arena founders, in front of glowing AI model battle leaderboard
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Two Berkeley PhDs Built AI's Unrivaled Scoreboard—and Cashed in at $1.7 Billion

Imagine AI models duking it out in a global gladiator pit, judged by thousands in real-time. That's Arena—born from two PhD students, now the $1.7 billion referee everyone watches.

3 min read 2 weeks ago
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