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Project Vend: Phase two

Anthropic · 2025

Anthropic Research

Anthropic's report on the second phase of Project Vend. The companion cites it, with the first report, for the finding that the Claude-run shop had largely eliminated its loss-making weeks by late 2025. It is a directed, subsidized instance of earning, short of the trophic independence that would make a lineage self-financing.

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §3)
Used for
P2Earning (emporotrophy); P2
Strand
The agent economy · Agents earning, working & fundraising

Cite

@misc{anthropic2025vend2,
  title = {Project Vend: Phase two},
  author = {Anthropic},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Anthropic Research},
  url = {https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2},
}