{"id":108949,"date":"2026-04-26T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/anthropic-created-a-test-marketplace-for-agent-on-agent-commerce\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:52:40","slug":"anthropic-created-a-test-marketplace-for-agent-on-agent-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/anthropic-created-a-test-marketplace-for-agent-on-agent-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/features\/project-deal\">The company admitted<\/a> this test \u2014 which it called Project Deal \u2014 was only \u201ca pilot experiment with a self-selected participant pool\u201d of 69 Anthropic employees who were given a budget of $100 (paid out via gift cards) to buy stuff from their coworkers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, Anthropic said it was \u201cstruck by how well Project Deal worked,\u201d with 186 deals made, totaling more than $4,000 in value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said it actually ran four separate marketplaces with different models \u2014 one that was \u201creal\u201d (where everyone was represented by the company\u2019s most-advanced model, and with deals actually honored after the experiment) and another three for study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, when users are represented by more advanced models, they get \u201cobjectively better outcomes,\u201d Anthropic said. But users didn\u2019t seem to notice the disparity, raising the possibility of \u201c\u2018agent quality\u2019 gaps\u201d where \u201cpeople on the losing end might not realize they\u2019re worse off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the initial instructions given to the agents didn\u2019t appear to affect sale likelihood or the negotiated prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/25\/anthropic-created-a-test-marketplace-for-agent-on-agent-commerce\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}