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LMSYS — AI Glossary

The Large Model Systems Organization; a UC Berkeley research group operating Chatbot Arena and producing Vicuna, FastChat, and SGLang.

Overview

LMSYS (Zheng, Sheng, et al.) created the Chatbot Arena (crowdsourced Elo ranking), Vicuna (early GPT-4-quality open model), FastChat (inference server), and SGLang (structured generation runtime). Their ELO leaderboard is the most cited production-quality model ranking. Collaboration between UC Berkeley RISE Lab and CMU.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is LMSYS?

The Large Model Systems Organization; a UC Berkeley research group operating Chatbot Arena and producing Vicuna, FastChat, and SGLang.

What concepts are related to LMSYS?

Closely related concepts include chatbot arena, alpacaeval, open llm leaderboard.