Anastasios Angelopoulos
Founder and leader of LMArena / Arena, building a large public model-evaluation platform trusted by millions and major labs; focused on benchmarking real-world model performance, launching vertical and multimodal arenas, and scaling the product through fundraising and engineering.
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Jan 6, 2026 • 24min
[State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
Anastasios Angelopoulos, founder of LMArena, shares his journey from a Berkeley basement to a $100M valuation. He discusses why they chose to spin out as a company to scale their mission. The conversation dives into Arena's innovative approach to benchmarking AI models, the transparency of their public leaderboard, and their responses to critiques. Anastasios also reveals plans for expanding into new verticals like medicine and legal, the significance of community engagement, and the exciting shift to multimodal arenas.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 38min
Elon Musk’s “Ego” SpaceX-xAI Bet, Ranking AI Models, Groq’s $7.6 Billion Payout
Miles Kruppa, AI and finance reporter covering Groq’s $7.6B payout and data-center financing. Anastasios Angelopoulos, CEO of Arena, expert on live AI benchmarking and leaderboards. Nick Wingfield, features editor analyzing orbital data centers and Starship’s role. They debate Musk’s orbital data center push, how live model rankings work, Groq’s licensing payout and finance strategies for hyperscale data centers.
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Jan 12, 2026 • 3h 22min
DOJ vs. Fed Chair, Apple Repositions Vision Pro, Ben Thompson Joins | Tyler Cowen, Harley Finkelstein, Andrew Feldman, Nathan Nwachuku, Anastasios Angelopoulos
Ben Thompson, the founder of Stratechery, critiques Apple's Vision Pro, arguing that its sports content overproduction detracts from user immersion. Economist Tyler Cowen discusses AI's impact on blue-collar jobs, suggesting new opportunities will arise despite task replacements. Andrew Feldman shares insights on Cerebras' innovative AI hardware, while Nathan Nwachuku details his work on autonomous security systems in Africa. Lastly, Harley Finkelstein from Shopify explores the future of commerce with new agentic storefront strategies.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 26min
The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry
Wei-Lin Chiang, Arena co-founder and CTO who built evaluation systems for LLMs and agents, and Anastasios Angelopoulos, Arena co-founder and former UC Berkeley PhD who created benchmarking platforms. They discuss how Arena measures real-world intelligence, preserves reproducibility and neutrality despite big lab funding, and expands from chat to agents, coding, and expert leaderboards.
Feb 24, 2026 • 45min
EP26: Measuring Intelligence in the Wild - Arena and the Future of AI Evaluation
Anastasios Angelopoulos, co-founder and CEO of Arena AI and theoretical statistician, explains why static benchmarks fail and how large-scale human-preference leaderboards work. He discusses style control vs substance, measuring AI-generated "slop," tool-use and code evaluation, and how real-user testing and rigorous statistics shape model leaderboards and pre-release testing.
