YC 访谈：Intelligence 用 Design Arena 评测 AI 创意能力，年化收入达 6000 万美元

产品机制上，Design Arena 通过真实用户的大规模使用来衡量“人类品味”，而非传统的静态基准测试。用户用多个前沿模型完成同一创意任务，其选择偏好沉淀为评测数据，随用户规模增长持续累积。这类“对齐人类偏好”的评测方式，区别于 SWE-bench 等以客观任务得分为主的基准。

商业层面，Intelligence 在约一年内达到 6000 万美元年化收入，团队规模保持小型。访谈还讨论了随着模型数量增多、领域专业化，专门化评测市场的发展方向，以及小团队在 AI 前沿创业中快速迭代的价值。

Intelligence (S25) is building benchmarks for the parts of AI that are hardest to measure. Their first product, @DesignArena , lets people use frontier models to build websites, images, videos, and other creative work, then turns those real-world interactions into data that helps model labs understand where their models succeed and fail. 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. In this fireside, Intelligence founder and CEO @grx_xce joins YC’s @agupta to explain why measuring what people actually want could become increasingly important as AI models multiply and specialize. They also talk about what she’s learned building a new category at the frontier of AI, where moving quickly and learning as you go can matter more than already having the answers. 00:00 — How Design Arena Works 03:21 — From AI Games to Creative Benchmarks 06:43 — Measuring Human Taste at Scale 09:56 — A Marketplace for Specialized AI 13:52 — The Small Team Behind a $60M Run Rate 17:04 — Hiring Fast Learners and Taking Action 20:56 — Handling Rejection and Living in the Future

本条情报归属 AITOP「产品」核心栏目，重点聚焦北美前沿实验室与硅谷科技巨头。在跨区域产业观察坐标中，该动态直接关联「AI 开发者工具链、Coding Agent 与工程化实践」「中美大模型技术代差与商业化对照」研究主线，反映出当前技术演进与商业落地的最新风向。涉及核心实体与技术议题包括：Design Arena、Intelligence、AI评测、基准测试，读者可通过下方标签进入对应专题页查阅历史脉络与关联对比。

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