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

This is our first Latent Space deep dive with an AI data company. In roughly a year, Handshake’s AI training business went from launch to $1 billion in gross annualized revenue. What are frontier labs buying at that scale? What evals are models still nowhere close to human level on? Garrett Lord brought the people who build these reinforcement learning environments to show us. For the first time, we are walking through them live!

To cover the scope of Handshake, we had to produce a very special joint podcast across our Science/Engineering/Research/Finance podcast hosts, because Handshake’s business runs across all these and more.

Finance. In the finance demo, the agent has to find its assignment in a bank’s email, work out which files govern the deal, and deliver a workbook. Watch what happens to one line in the client’s email about existing goodwill. The agent carries the number into Python and subtracts it. Collin points out that the model can explain the tax treatment when you ask it directly. The mistake comes when it has to recognize that this particular line of code is where the rule applies.

Bio. Nick Magazine and Jonas Mueller show us VIALS, Handshake’s benchmark for interpreting the images scientists use at work. Nick puts nine slides of brain-tumor tissue on screen and asks which two show the most advanced vessel necrosis. Give yourself a moment before his answer. Nick picks H and I. The model picks those two and adds G. Watching Nick point to what’s missing from the tissue is more instructive than seeing the score.

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