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What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team

Latent Space interviews Handshake AI founder Garrett Lord and team for 2h 43m, walking through reinforcement-learning training environments for finance, biology and safety, and how frontier labs buy training data.

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  1. Garrett Lord, Sahil Bhaiwala and Nishant Ranka introduce Handshake's AI training data business

  2. How frontier labs buy training data; Handshake's AI business reached about $1 billion in gross annualized revenue within a year

  3. Nick Magazine and Jonas Mueller introduce VIALS, a benchmark for models interpreting the images scientists use at work

  4. Biology task one: reading the bands on a gel

  5. Biology task two: finding the two brain-tumor tissue slides with the most advanced vessel necrosis; the model picked those two plus one more

  6. Atlas Finance: Collin Schweiker and Sahil Bhaiwala demo the agent environment inside a simulated bank

  7. Where the agent's financial model went wrong: it carried a line about existing goodwill from the client's email into Python and subtracted it

  8. Safety and alignment: Steve Kelling and Nishant Ranka trace the agent's tool calls through safety simulations

  9. The leadership team discusses Handshake's mission

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