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Angelopoulos: Fake AI applicants passed Arena's live technical engineering interviews
“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…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 34:53 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Assertion Supported
Angelopoulos: Kimi K3 Beat Top US Closed Models in Web Development
“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…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 3:00 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Assertion Partly supported
Angelopoulos: Thinking Machines' Inkling ranks #1 in US open source, behind nine Chinese models
“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…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 12:49 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Assertion Supported
Angelopoulos: Arena has 30M+ monthly visitors, bigger than Hugging Face and xAI
“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…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 49:46 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Disclosure
Angelopoulos: Arena has passed a $100M annualized revenue run rate
“So we're past a hundred million in annualized revenue run rate, and that's based on like Q, Q two times four.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 52:06 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Disclosure
Angelopoulos: Arena considering mandatory in-person onboarding to verify real humans
“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…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 36:53 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Assertion Supported
Angelopoulos: Google's Gemma sits on the performance-versus-cost Pareto curve
“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.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 24:37 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Disclosure
Angelopoulos reveals Arena uses Alibaba's Qwen in its tech stack
“And I said, you know, yeah, we use Quinn for X, Y, Z.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 23:38 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
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