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What this video covers
This episode features Garrett Lord, Handshake’s CEO, describing how the company repurposed its existing career-network membership into a verified network of academic experts and began supplying those experts’ labor to frontier AI developers. The description frames Handshake’s expert network as a durable input to post-training pipelines, outlines the practical tasks experts perform for model improvement, and summarizes the company’s rapid revenue growth after launching the service.
The episode also covers operational choices Handshake made while building the new business—separate teams, dedicated processes and offices—and situates expert-led data labeling as distinct from generalist annotation work, arguing that specialist human input is becoming a critical component of advancing large models.
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