Q Was there a moment for you where you were, uh, I'm sure you were debating it yourself. You had other opportunities. What was the deciding factor for you?
A It became clear that the only way to scale what we were building was to build a company out of it. That the world really needed something like Arena. Arena being really a place to sort of measure, understand, and, and advance the frontier AI capabilities in, on real world users, on real world usage. Based on organic feedback and that in order to achieve the scale and, you know, distribution necessary and the quality of course of the platform necessary to do this effectively, we would need to start a company out of it. You know, we considered other options. Are we going to keep doing this as an academic project? Are we going to do it as a nonprofit? Blah, blah, blah. But ultimately under those constructs, we didn't feel like we'd have the resources necessary to accomplish our mission.
AI assessment note: “It became clear that the only way to scale what we were building was to build a company”