[State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- January 6, 2026
- Duration
- 24:02
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 7, 2026
Discusses evals.
Summary
We are reupping this episode after LMArena announced their fresh Series A (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-evaluation-startup-lmarena-valued-1-7-billion-new-funding-round?rc=luxwz4), raising $150m at a $1.7B valuation, with $30M annualized consumption revenue (aka $2.5m MRR) after their September evals product launch.—-From building LMArena in …
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We are reupping this episode after LMArena announced their fresh Series A (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-evaluation-startup-lmarena-valued-1-7-billion-new-funding-round?rc=luxwz4), raising $150m at a $1.7B valuation, with $30M annualized consumption revenue (aka $2.5m MRR) after their September evals product launch.—-From building LMArena in a Berkeley basement to raising $100M and becoming the de facto leaderboard for frontier AI, Anastasios Angelopoulos returns to Latent Space to
Themes
- evals