idler

About

idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.

Founders

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  Ivan Chub· Founder

  Idler. Previously cofounder of Dark Forest, 0xPARC, Zupass, Hack Lodge; also previously at Facebook, Dynasty, AppSheet.

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  Nalu Concepcion· Founder

  currently: building RL environments. formerly: orchestrated 500+ person parties, monthly @ notsominimoments · eng @ msft · fellow @ notable capital · product @ poshmark · ds @ paymongo cornell computer science + operations research & information engineering. DM's especially open to book / movie / song recs.

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  Tony Goss· Founder

  Dark Forest, Zupass, US Census Bureau. Pro ultimate player, state champion coach, and Dominion nerd

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Change history · 7 recorded

1. August 26, 2026
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2. August 19, 2026
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3. August 15, 2026
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4. August 11, 2026
   • Description rewritten07:00 PM
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