ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 3 Arena (formerly LMArena) releases since Nov 2025, most recently Agent Arena on Jun 4, 2026. Highlights include Code Arena, Agent Arena. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live.
Arena launches Agent Arena for real-world agent workflow evals
Arena (LMArena) launched Agent Arena during the episode, moving beyond one-turn chatbot preference battles to evaluate models on real agent workflows with web search, files, terminals, user corrections, and objective recovery signals. Peter Gostev joined live to explain why long-running, harder tasks need a different benchmark.
Arena releases 3 years of leaderboard data and prompts on Hugging Face
Arena (formerly LMArena) released three years of historical leaderboard data plus the actual user prompts as datasets on Hugging Face. Peter Gostev, who previously scraped the site by hand into Google Sheets for his charts, now builds his Compute Wars and model-trend analyses straight from the data.
LMArena launches Code Arena for live agentic coding evaluations
LMArena launched Code Arena, a live evaluation platform where models build real applications agentically and humans vote on the results. It extends the arena-style crowdsourced ranking approach to agentic coding workflows.
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