Handshake says training-data business reached about $1 billion
First merged summary.
Handshake AI says its expert training-data business reached about $1 billion in gross annualized revenue within roughly a year.
Latent Space interviewed Handshake AI’s Garrett Lord and colleagues about expert training data sold to frontier labs. The episode covers biology, finance, coding, and safety tasks, including VIALS, Project Falcon, ATLAS-Finance, and CAREBench. Handshake says the business reached $1 billion in gross annualized revenue in about a year; an earlier Latent Space writeup said nearly $1 billion. Hosts say labs hold out evaluation tasks and test new datasets, including on open models. The discussion also covers where models still miss human performance on scientific images, bank documents, Excel work, and agent safety.
- Handshake says gross annualized revenue hit about $1 billion in a year.
- VIALS covers gel-band, necrosis, and brain-tissue image tasks.
- Project Falcon and ATLAS-Finance simulate bank documents and Excel grading.
- CAREBench includes tool-call traces, file access, and a fair-lending simulation.
- Hosts say labs hold out tasks and test data on open models.
Timeline
dated events in the reporting · oldest first- Nov 9, 2026Latent Space airs Handshake AI training-data interview · Latent Space
What each outlet adds
beyond the shared facts- Latent SpaceEarlier writeup says nearly $1 billion and details necrosis and fair-lending tasks.
- Latent SpaceLater writeup says Handshake reached $1 billion and adds coding and file-access tasks.
- Products
- VIALSATLAS-FinanceCAREBench
- Organizations
- Handshake AI
Coverage
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Latent SpaceFirst report
Handshake AI podcast on what frontier labs buy for training data
The episode covers RL environments in biology, finance and alignment, plus Handshake’s claimed near-$1 billion annualized revenue.
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Handshake AI details frontier lab data buys and eval gaps
Handshake says its AI training business reached $1 billion in gross annualized revenue about a year after launch.