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Intelligence, the company behind AI ranking platform Design Arena, raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures. The platform, which uses human feedback to evaluate media-generating models, has 5.3 million users and generates $60 million in annual recurring revenue. The funding will support the company's growth in the AI evaluation space.
Intelligence, the company behind AI ranking tool DesignArena, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures. The platform, used by 5.3 million people, generates $60 million in annual recurring revenue by providing human preference data to frontier AI labs. The funding will help scale the service as demand for human-led evaluation grows amid concerns about automated benchmark manipulation.
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based startup building AI voice models, has raised $50 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today. The company offers over 15,000 natural language controls and serves more than 8 million users, generating $21 million in annual recurring revenue. It plans to use the funding to develop more advanced models and expand enterprise offerings.
Startup Era has collected $11 million in total funding to develop a software platform for AI gadgets. The funding includes a $9 million seed round led by Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup. The platform supports hardware makers in building AI agents for devices like glasses and speakers.