Frontier Data Research Lab Idler Raises $9M Seed Round
ycombinator · x · 2026-08-20
Idler, a new frontier data research lab, announced a $9M seed round led by 0xalpo and FrankieIsLost from Paradigm, with participation from Y Combinator, LongJourneyVC, and several angel investors. The funding will be used to build evals, benchmarks, and reinforcement learning environments for the world's leading frontier labs to train and measure their models.
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