Handshake AI podcast on what frontier labs buy for training data
Original title: What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team
The episode covers RL environments in biology, finance and alignment, plus Handshake’s claimed near-$1 billion annualized revenue.
Latent Space interviews Handshake AI’s Garrett Lord and colleagues on the market for expert training data sold to frontier labs. Segments cover gel and brain-tissue tasks, Project Falcon’s Excel grader, and safety simulations including CAREBench. The show says Handshake built an AI training business doing nearly $1 billion in gross annualized revenue in about a year.
Unconfirmed: The nearly $1 billion gross annualized revenue figure is the podcast’s claim, not independently verified here.
- Biology segment introduces the VIALS benchmark and gel-band and necrosis tasks.
- Finance segment walks through Project Falcon, Atlas Finance and an Excel grader.
- Alignment segment covers CAREBench, tool-call traces and a fair-lending loan simulation.
- Hosts say labs hold out evaluation tasks and test data on open models.
From the original article
2 min read at latent.space
Our first deep dive with an AI data company. In roughly a year, Handshake built an AI training business doing nearly $1 billion in gross annualized revenue. What are frontier labs buying?
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