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> It's past time for LMArena people to sit down and have some thorough reflection on whether it is still worth running at all

They've raised about $250 million, so I don't see that happening anytime soon.

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I kinda assumed they wouldn't need any money because AI companies give them free credits to evaluate the models, and users ask questions and rate for free because they get to use decent AI models at no cost...

Beyond that there is coding up a web page, which as we all know can be vibe coded in a few hours...

What else is there to spend money on?

They don't need to spend extensively for tokens, but they gain extensively from charging for access once they've become an established player.

But the question was: what do they need $250m for?

"so that we can move even faster to build new features and improve our product experience for all our users" https://news.lmarena.ai/series-a/

everyone needs $250mil :)

i asked them this in my interview. tldr they subsidize all inference on their platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnOk0Uy9ig&t=70s

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