Handshake AI details frontier lab data buys and eval gaps
Original title: What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team
Handshake says its AI training business reached $1 billion in gross annualized revenue about a year after launch.
A Latent Space interview with Handshake AI covers what frontier labs buy in expert training data and where models still miss human performance. The episode walks through finance, biology, coding, and safety tasks, including ATLAS-Finance, VIALS, and CAREBench. Handshake says the training business reached $1 billion in gross annualized revenue in roughly a year. Hosts also discuss how labs evaluate new datasets and hold out tasks.
Unconfirmed: The $1 billion revenue figure is Handshake’s own claim and is not independently verified in the item.
- Handshake says revenue hit $1 billion gross annualized in about a year.
- VIALS tests scientific image reading, including brain-tissue slides.
- ATLAS-Finance and Project Falcon simulate bank documents and Excel work.
- CAREBench and file-access tasks evaluate agent tool use and safety.
- Products
- VIALSATLAS-FinanceCAREBench
- Organizations
- Handshake AI
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3 min read at latent.space
Handshake went from launch to $1B in one year pushing the envelope of specialized data for frontier labs. Our first deep dive into a data lab with specific examples across Finance, Bio, and Alignment
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