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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Garrett Lord, Sahil Bhaiwala and Nishant Ranka introduce Handshake's AI training data business
How frontier labs buy training data; Handshake's AI business reached about $1 billion in gross annualized revenue within a year
Nick Magazine and Jonas Mueller introduce VIALS, a benchmark for models interpreting the images scientists use at work
Biology task one: reading the bands on a gel
Biology task two: finding the two brain-tumor tissue slides with the most advanced vessel necrosis; the model picked those two plus one more
Atlas Finance: Collin Schweiker and Sahil Bhaiwala demo the agent environment inside a simulated bank
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
Safety and alignment: Steve Kelling and Nishant Ranka trace the agent's tool calls through safety simulations
The leadership team discusses Handshake's mission
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