Lord: Handshake AI works with seven frontier AI labs
Garrett Lord · Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord · Aug 24, 2025 · at 36:06
Garrett Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake. He explains the commercial adoption of Handshake AI by major AI research labs.
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“Fast forward to today, we're working with Seven of the frontier labs, basically every lab that's doing work and building the best large language models.”
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