https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/22/chatbot-arena-group-goes-from-academic-project-to-600-million-startup/

By Rachel Metz and Katie Roof, Bloomberg

Chatbot Arena started as an academic project, where researchers and students at the University of California at Berkeley worked to evaluate the capacity of artificial intelligence tools. Now, the group has spun out into a new company, called LMArena, that’s raised $100 million in seed funding from a slate of A-list investors.