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

Latent Space's first deep dive with an AI data company examines Handshake's AI training business, which went from launch to $1 billion in gross annualized revenue in roughly a year. The episode walks through live demos of reinforcement learning environments across finance (Project Falcon's Excel grader), life sciences (the VIALS benchmark for scientific images), and safety/alignment simulations, with segments on how frontier labs buy and evaluate data.