@FinanceYF5: Anthropic just quietly completed a magical experiment. They had Claude buy and sell second-hand items for employees for a whole week. Results: >186 transactions >Total $4000+ >Items from snowboards to a bag of ping pong balls >Opus users got better deals—but Haiku users were completely unaware…
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Anthropic conducted an internal experiment where they had Claude act as an agent for employees to buy and sell second-hand items over a week, successfully completing 186 transactions. The results showed that Opus users could negotiate better prices, while Haiku users were at a disadvantage, demonstrating the initial feasibility of an Agent-to-Agent economy.
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🧵 Anthropic just quietly ran a surreal experiment.
Letting Claude buy and sell used items for employees, for an entire week.
Results:
>186 deals completed >Total $4000+ >Items ranging from a snowboard to a bag of ping pong balls >Opus users negotiated better deals — but Haiku users had no idea they were getting the short end
Agent-to-agent economy, already running internally.
Full record 👇 https://t.co/iYgKZPnLEP
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