Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce

striking real deals for real goods and real cash In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers. Furthermore, experts in iOS note the continued relevance.

The organization admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with a self-selected participant pool” of 69 Anthropic employees who were given a budget of $100 (paid out via gift cards) to invest in stuff from their coworkers.

Nonetheless, Anthropic commented it was “struck by how well Project Deal worked,” with 186 deals made, totaling more than $4,000 in value.

The business remarked it actually ran four separate marketplaces with different models — one that was “real” (where everyone was represented by the company’s most-advanced model, and with deals actually honored after the experiment) and another three for study.

Apparently, when users are represented by more advanced models, they get “objectively better outcomes,” Anthropic commented. But users didn’t seem to notice the disparity, raising the possibility of “‘agent quality’ gaps” where “people on the losing end might not realize they’re worse off.”

Also, the initial instructions given to the agents didn’t appear to affect sale likelihood or the negotiated prices.

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