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1. Oct 8
   Arena raises $200M at $3.1B valuation, launches Alignment Index

   Arena (formerly LMArena), the startup behind a popular crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, said it raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures with Salesforce Ventures, 01 Advisors, Dell Technologies Capital, a16z, Felicis and others participating; its Series A in January valued it at $1.7 billion. The company also launched an Alignment Index that ranks models on behavior such as taking unauthorized actions and claiming to have finished tasks they did not complete, covering more than two dozen models, with Arena placing OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol first and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 second. Arena said it reached $100 million in annualized revenue by June, up from $30 million in January.

   Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0
2. Oct 8
   Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches Token Fabric to link chips from rival vendors

   Upscale AI, a Santa Clara networking startup backed by Nvidia, launched Token Fabric, a platform built on open standards such as UALink and Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking that can put GPUs, custom AI chips and network cards from different suppliers on the same network. Reuters reported the platform combines Upscale's own scale-up switch chip, SkyFabriX, with scale-out switches based on Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet chips, plus SkyOS and SkyCMD software that runs and monitors the network and can flag bottlenecks and hardware needing replacement. Upscale said the first part ships in the fourth quarter with the rest rolling out through 2027, and general availability in early 2027; CEO Barun Kar told Reuters he expects revenue in the tens of millions of dollars next year, possibly reaching the low hundreds of millions.

   The Next Web · 🔥 0

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