According to CoinMeta, data company Idler completed a $9 million seed round of financing, led by Paradigm, with Y Combinator and Long Journey Ventures also participating. Idler primarily creates evaluation, benchmark testing, and reinforcement learning environments for leading model companies, helping them to repeatedly execute tasks in scenarios close to real work and obtain feedback. Over the past year, Idler has created thousands of programming evaluation and training environments for a top-tier AI laboratory and signed a multi-million-dollar contract with another leading basic model laboratory. The first public benchmark test Shelflife by Idler transformed an operating retail company into a “digital twin,” with the official website providing 200 tasks based on that company’s nearly ten years of actual business records.