Handshake
Career network turned human-data and RL environments provider via Handshake AI
Handshake operates the largest early-career network in the US and launched Handshake AI, a human data labs business that recruits PhD-level experts to build evals and RL environments for frontier AI labs. It leverages its network of millions of students and experts for domain-specific data.
Known for its 'Gandalf the Grader' benchmark work
| Website | joinhandshake.com/research/ai |
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| Domains | Multi-Domain, Data Labeling, RLHF |
| Location | San Francisco, New York, Bangalore, Berlin |
| Team size | 250+ |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Funding | Series F, $200M (2022, ~$3.5B valuation) |
| Founders | Garrett Lord |
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