# Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

**Published:** October 8, 2026
**Author:** Julie Bort
**Source:** TechCrunch — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/popular-ai-leaderboard-arena-nearly-doubles-valuation-to-3-1b-valuation

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic

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