Srini Veerapaneni

Handshake AI, agents, enterprise AI. Here to learn from the best technologists and put up with the rest. Back here after a break.

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@illscience One of the best write-ups. Almost as good as one of yours ;)

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@Dattakaligotla 💯

[Garrett Lord @GarrettLord]

Data is the bottleneck.

[Garrett Lord @GarrettLord]

Kudos to the entire @reflection_ai team! Excited about American OSS!

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@cgnorthcutt Awesome!

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@alexandr_wang not as cool as flagging that 90’s wine that just dropped at my favorite high demand wine shop.

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@clairevo I feel vindicated.

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@shaunmmaguire @grok what is he talking about

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@Dattakaligotla @CompleteSkeptic Give this man his Jev!

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@GarrettLord Let’s gooooo

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@illscience Congrats!

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

Awesome work by my colleagues @joinHandshake. You can just ask AI and it will teach you better than a human can! All you need is an internet connection and you have access to the best tutors in the world.

[Curtis G. Northcutt @cgnorthcutt]

Today we establish that AI is as good as expert human tutors for immediate GRE learning gains (p=.015, n=2,383 students, study conducted July-Sep 2026).

One hour with an expert GRE tutor: $75.
One equivalent hour with an AI tutor: 7 cents .
918x cheaper, equivalent learning (p=.044, n = 140).

In 5 of 7 academic topics, the top AI tutor beat the expert human tutors on average.

How we measured it: pre-test -> 1 hour with (AI or human or no) tutor -> post-test.
There are no LLM judges. Learning gains are post-pre. Everything is real students.

Why we did this:
> 1 trillion USD is being spent per year on machines making machines better. StudentBench shows us how to shift these resources so machines also make humans better.

Why I did this:
I grew up in rural Kentucky. My dad, grandad, and great grandad were all mailmen. Getting into a good college changed my life. Now we have done a rigorous study to help AI labs evaluate LLMs and help show how bright AI can be for students of all incomes.

I believe in good science that leads to the democratization of opportunity.

The research paper behind StudentBench: https://t.co/JfkDDllP4i
Data, code, details: in this thread

If you're wondering what I'm selling, sorry to disappoint: we released all study data for free on Hugging Face, and made https://t.co/5G9L8yAxrt free to use. Enjoy.

lots more in the video / thread!!

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@jonstull @Noahpinion Exactly what I was going to post. The fare gates have been a game changer (I have been a daily rider for close to 10y!).

PS: My kids take muni and while those trains are fine, the buses are still a bit of an adventure.

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@Rainmaker1973 Needed the reminder. Thank you. #perspective

[Garrett Lord @GarrettLord]

we are so early.

@coatuemgmt

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The Handshake story is one for the ages

Most epic pivot to massive PMF

@GarrettLord

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist GTS2

[Srini Veerapaneni @sveerapa]

@micsolana @TrungTPhan SF part sadly unsurprising, what is surprising is LA said yes ;).