Frontier data research laboratory idler has completed a $9 million seed financing led by Paradigm investors Alpo and Frankie. Y Combinator, Long Journey VC and angel investors including marrc, catheryn_li, dcposch, Janine Leger, Lynett Capital, feross and nur_daulet_ also participated. The funding will support evaluation systems, benchmark testing and reinforcement learning environments (training settings that use feedback) for leading frontier laboratories worldwide to train and measure model performance.