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Compute and researcher time are probably the two most valuable resources available to an AI lab.

Unresolved speaker · What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team · 9 Nov 2026

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“It's a ton of researcher time. It's, you know, compute is now, uh, uh, compute and researcher time are probably the two most valuable resources at a lab. And so if you can't trust the data, you're spending way more compute on trying to, you know, ablate against that data in eval, because the tasks are longer and longer horizons.”
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