{"id":58908,"date":"2026-10-09T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=58908"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:31:06","slug":"%e7%9f%ad%e7%9f%ad-10-%e4%b8%aa%e6%9c%88%e5%87%a0%e4%b9%8e%e7%bf%bb%e5%80%8d%ef%bc%8cai-%e6%a8%a1%e5%9e%8b%e8%af%84%e6%b5%8b%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0-arena-%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e5%8d%87%e8%87%b3-31-%e4%ba%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/58908.html","title":{"rendered":"Short, 10 months almost doubled, and the AI Model Evaluation Platform Arena valuation rose to $3.1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 9th, local time 8th<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e6%a8%a1%e5%9e%8b%e8%af%84%e6%b5%8b%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH LABELS IN [AI MODEL EVALUATION PLATFORM]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI MODEL EVALUATION PLATFORM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/arena\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Arena<\/a> THE ARENA ANNOUNCED THE COMPLETION OF $200 MILLION (THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS ABOUT RMB 13,433 MILLION) ROUND B OF FINANCING, WHICH IS NOW BEING FINANCED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO<strong>Value reached $3.1 billion<\/strong>(The current exchange rate is about RMB 20,817 million). Arena was originally a research project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2023, where the AI model was ranked by popular vote\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58909\" title=\"644745 bcj00tmmhuv0026d000v9000gep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/644745bcj00tmmhuv0026d000v900gep.jpg\" alt=\"644745 bcj00tmmhuv0026d000v9000gep\" width=\"1125\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arena previously disclosed that the annualization of this June amounted to $100 million (the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 672 million)\u3002<\/p>\n<p>The current round of financing is co-financed by light-speed investments and by institutions such as Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, 01 Advisors, Dale Science and Technology Capital, Endeavoor Catalest, a16z and Felicis\u3002<\/p>\n<p>In January this year, Arena completed a round of financing of $150 million (current exchange rate approximately RMB 1,007 million)<strong>Post valuation $1.7 billion<\/strong>(The current exchange rate is approximately RMB 114.1.6 billion) and the annualizations received US$ 30 million (the current exchange rate is about RMB 201 million). In a short period of about 10 months, Arena's valuation was nearly doubled\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Arena 's Assessment Platform<strong>Free access to individual users<\/strong>I don't know. The user can enter a hint, or allow AI to prepare a program, develop a project, and compare and rate the results of the different models. According to Arena, the platform attracts tens of millions of visitors each month\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Arena launched the AI Models Development Agency and Business Services, which provides detailed model performance analysis using feedback from community users\u3002<\/p>\n<p>THIS YEAR, AI, R &amp; D FOUND THAT THE FLAG MODEL COULD PASS<strong>Rules for matching baseline tests<\/strong>High marks are not necessarily matched by real capacity. Enterprises are no longer satisfied with standardized test results and would like to know which model is better suited to their business needs\u3002<\/p>\n<p>In the financing announcement, Arena states: \u201cAI has grown faster than we can assess. Once the model finds itself tested, a fixed benchmark test will lapse. The world needs a neutral third party to test whether AI is safe in its actual use and is acting in accordance with human expectations. Arena began to assume that role.\"<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Arena is on the list<strong>Additional alignment assessment<\/strong>The focus is on whether the model will perform unauthorized operations not required by the user, whether it will be crowned, attribute words or facts to the wrong source, and whether it will be falsely described as having fulfilled its mission. Arena describes the last act as \u201cdeceptive completion\u201d\u3002<\/p>\n<p>On the initial alignment list, the OpenAI multi-mode model ranked at the top, Claude Opus 5.5 sixth, Claude Fable ninth\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 October, according to the news, local time, 8 October, the AI Model Evaluation Platform, Arena arena, announced the completion of $200 million (current exchange rate approximately RMB 13.43 billion) B round of financing, valued at $3.1 billion (current exchange rate approximately RMB 20.817 billion). Arena was originally a research project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2023, where the AI model was ranked by popular vote. Arena previously disclosed that the annualization of this June amounted to $100 million (the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 672 million). This round of financing is co-financed by light speed and Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[9146,9145],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-58908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-arena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58908"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=58908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}