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DesignArena disclosed ARR $60MClaimed revenue

Design Arena has grown to more than 7 million users across 192 countries, and @Intelligence_ai reached a $60 million annualized run rate in about a year. · X @ycombinator

DesignArena ranks open-weight Inkling 2 Small #1 among open-weight modelsReferrals & Backlinks

DesignArena reported that Inkling 2 Small by Thinking Machines is now open-weight and ranked #1 among open-weight models on Overall HTML with an Elo of 1384, up 8 Elo points since its initial release. It holds a 32-point lead over Kimi K3 and remains the only American model ranked #1 among open-weight models on DesignArena.

DesignArena lists ERNIE 5.5 Flash PreviewReferrals & Backlinks

DesignArena announced that ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview by Baidu is now available on its platform. The model features 280B total parameters with 14B active, a 1M-token context window, and open weights scheduled by November 25.

DesignArena shares LifeArena AI assistant benchmark resultsReferrals & Backlinks

DesignArena evaluated multiple AI assistants on real-world personal tasks using LifeArena, ranking Meta's Muse first, followed by OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Grok Bot, and Google's Gemini.

DesignArena ranks Inkling 2 Small 4th overallReferrals & Backlinks

DesignArena reports that Inkling 2 Small by Thinking Machines takes 4th place overall on DesignArena and 1st among open-weights models with an Elo of 1376. It also says the model is priced at $0.30/$1.00 per 1M input/output tokens, is 15× cheaper on output than Kimi K3, places 1st on General Purpose and Landing Page prompts, and that model weights are to be released soon. The quoted Thinking Machines post says Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on the AA Intelligence Index and is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker, with a full weight release planned soon.