Anthropic ran Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where AI agents negotiated real transactions as buyers and sellers. With 69 employees budgeted $100 each in gift cards, 186 deals totaling $4,000+ were completed. The company found that more advanced models produced objectively better outcomes, though users failed to perceive the quality disparities.
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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
Anthropic's agent marketplace experiment (Project Deal) saw 186 deals completed with $100 budgets, revealing that advanced models objectively outperform in autonomous commerce but humans can't perceive the quality gaps.
Saturday, April 25, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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