Arena

“So we're past a hundred million in annualized revenue run rate, and that's based on like Q, Q two times four.”

“And for the first time ever, we saw a couple of weeks ago that Kimi K three actually beat the best closed source American models on a, you know, pretty important subset of tasks, for example, front end coding, like web development, which a huge fraction of dev…”

“And within that time, they'd become the number one American open source model. But then the less generous take would be the companies existed for a year and a half. And then they've come up with, yes, the number one American open source, but there's nine Chine…”

“Gemma, by the way, is pretty good in terms of efficiency. If you look at arena, you'll see the, on the Pareto curves of like performance versus cost. Gemma's on there.”

“And I said, you know, yeah, we use Quinn for X, Y, Z.”

“They come in, they're like, hey, I want to be an infrastructure engineer at Arena, which is a great job that we're hiring for you. But then the other side of it is some guy that looks perfectly normal. They're getting, you know, they're passing all of our tech…”

“We're gonna change our whole hiring process because of this kind of stuff. It absolutely worries me. Well, at first you need to verify that person is real. So all of our onboarding, we're considering at least making all of our onboarding in person because of t…”

“People don't know this, but Arena's one of the largest consumer AI apps in the world. We're bigger than, like, XAI. We're bigger than, like, Hugging Face, and Manus, and GenSpark, where it's so massive, like if you, like outside in, it's like 30 plus million m…”