- Published on 18 Mar 2025
- Last updated on 13 Jun 2025
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LMArena Community Updates: Looking Ahead
Today, we’re excited to begin sharing community updates in our blog as we continue to make progress towards long-term growth.
Over the past two years, with the incredible support of our community, LMArena has grown into a vibrant ecosystem and platform with just a team of contributors, advisors and partnerships. Today, we’re excited to begin sharing community updates in our blog as we continue to make progress towards long-term growth.
A Platform for the Future
First, let’s take a trip down memory lane when we graduated from LMSys in September 2024 to establish LMArena as an independent platform. With the continued strong partnership with LMSys, we broadened our scope to evaluate not just chatbots but also frontier AI models in areas like WebDev Arena, complex tasks, and red-teaming. This expansion allowed us to deepen our insights and provide even more value to the AI community.
LMSys has always been more than just a single initiative—it has served as a research collective behind projects like Vicuna, Chatbot Arena, SGLang, S-LoRA, RouteLLM, and more. As LMArena takes on a life of its own, LMSys will continue to foster new projects and drive open research. If you’re interested in contributing to the future of AI, there’s never been a better time to get involved.
Our New Discord Server
With this exciting evolution, we recently also launched a dedicated Discord community server earlier this month! Join us at: discord.gg/LMArena! This will be the new hub for all things LMArena—where we’ll share insights on ongoing projects, leaderboard updates, and even host community-driven events and surprises.
In fact, we recently held our very first community event in the new Discord server, where over 20 members joined us for a walkthrough of the new desktop UI design in alpha. We also dove into community feedback on the voting UI—as your voices are shaping the future of the platform, and we can’t wait to continue these conversations with you. It was an exciting opportunity to connect directly with the community, discuss upcoming improvements, and get live input on the changes. We’re looking forward to hosting many more events like this so give us your feedback on what you’d like to see.
