Introducing Handshake AI—the most ambitious chapter in our story. We leverage the scale of the largest early career network to source, train, and manage domain experts who test and challenge frontier models to failure for the top AI labs.
Pretty great progress through @reflection_ai on the development of their alignment teacher.
It’s nuanced across domains to know when an agent should refuse a request. For example, if someone asks how to create a protein, it could be used for drug discovery or to create a
We've posted a 156-page tech report on Beam! We have good systems and it's worth reading. It covers all phases through pre-training, mid-training, SFT, RL, and OPD and goes into the infra, data, and scientific decisions we made throughout the process
📚 reflection.ai/documents/beam…
⏳ 30 Days to #NeurIPS202
The Handshake AI research team will be presenting two papers at NeurIPS 2026 Sydney.
BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investment Banking Workflows
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.11304
Verifying Agents in Rubric-Graded Environments
@ArtificialAnlys just released Handshake's VIALS benchmark!
VIALS evaluates models on their ability to perform visual reasoning tasks in life sciences and biotech. Think: a biologist in a lab examining a molecule to determine its structure.
Gemini 4 Carbon leads at 64%,
We’re launching VIALS-AA, a leaderboard for Handshake AI’s VIALS benchmark for visual reasoning in life sciences and biotech research
Visual artifacts are central to how scientists analyze experiments and make research decisions, but interpreting them correctly remains a
Introducing Inkling 2 Small. Scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, it's a big jump over its predecessor.
Inkling 2 Small is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker today, with full weight release planned soon.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2…