POPA ReconAnthropic - Project Deal
Anthropic - Project Deal Anthropic ran "Project Deal," a week's experiment where employees got a $100 budget and had Claude agents operated in a marketplce to conduct interviews to learn preferences, then autonomously listed items, negotiated, and closed deals (186 of them, totaling ~$4,000) without human intervention The twist: some participants were secretly assigned either Claude Opus 4.5 or the weaker Haiku 4.5. Results showed that Opus agents objectively outperformed - closing more deals, selling the same items for ~$3.64 more on average, and paying less as buyers. But participants repr…
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