Very excited for us a16z to have led the seed round for Meridian alongside The General Partnership ("TheGP") (Phin Barnes), with participation from FPV Ventures and QED Investors. Meridian is building an IDE designed for finance to bring AI superpowers directly into spreadsheets. The product

New paper from Scale AI & Meridian: SpreadsheetArena 📄 We evaluated 16 LLMs on end-to-end spreadsheet generation via 4,300+ blind pairwise votes. Crucially, we move beyond scalar Elo ratings to decompose the latent preference signal into functional, structural, and