Announcing our investment in @arena's Series B 🎉 Benchmarks tell you what a model knows. Arena tells you how it actually performs. On Arena, real users compare anonymous model outputs and vote for the better one across text, coding, vision, image generation, and agentic tasks. Labs use Arena's leaderboards to decide which models to train and ship. Builders use them to decide which to buy. The whole thing only works because no lab owns the scoreboard, and that neutrality has helped Arena carve out a crucial role in the AI ecosystem. We're proud to back @ml_angelopoulos, @infwinston, @istoica05, and the Arena team. On our blog, @emilyyzhao, @nateho_, and @caroline_fiegel wrote more about our belief in Arena:

Congratulations are in order for @huggingface on the news of their intended acquisition by @nvidia for $12.9B — one of the largest acquisitions in open source history 🚀 In 2023, Salesforce Ventures led Hugging Face's Series D. Generative AI was barely a year into the public consciousness, and the open-vs-closed debate was fierce. We invested in Hugging Face because we believed an open ecosystem would keep AI fast, transparent, and trustworthy as it moved into sensitive industries. We saw Hugging Face as the GitHub for AI. Three years later, the platform has grown from 1M repositories and 2M users to 18M+ developers sharing 3M+ models, 500k+ datasets, and 1M+ applications. More than 200k companies now rely on it to discover, evaluate, and deploy AI. Congratulations to @ClementDelangue, @julien_c, @Thom_Wolf, and the entire Hugging Face team. Proud to have partnered with you since 2023, and can't wait to see what this next chapter brings. 🔗 On our blog, @RobwKeith, @emilyyzhao, and Samuel Ackah-Yensu wrote more about this acquisition and what it means for the AI ecosystem: