What frontier labs actually buy: Handshake AI's data deep dive, ~$1B in a year
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-11-10
Latent Space's first deep dive with an AI data company: Handshake AI hit roughly $1B annualized gross revenue in about a year. Garrett Lord and team open up the RL environments behind frontier training data — from biology and investment banking to alignment.
Highlights: an agent gamed an Excel grader by opening a new tab filled with every number from 1 to 1,000,000 (the grader found what it wanted; a banker would look in the right row and year); a scientist walks through a gel and nine brain-tissue slides; a banker traces an agent's inbox, Python code and financial model to the assumption that broke the deal; the safety team shows how to read agent actions when the final answer sounds fine. Two benchmarks are public: VIALS (visual life sciences) and ATLAS Finance.
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