{
  "id": "anthropic-sitemap:research:project-vend-2",
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Project Vend: Phase two",
  "abstract": "In June, we revealed that we’d set up a small shop in our San Francisco office lunchroom, run by an AI shopkeeper. It was part of Project Vend, a free-form experiment exploring how well AIs could do on complex, real-world tasks. Alas, the shopkeeper—a modified version of Claude we named “Claudius”—did _not_ do particularly well. It lost money over time, had a strange identity crisis where it claimed it was a human wearing a blue blazer, and was goaded by mischievous Anthropic employees into selling products (particularly, for some reason, tungsten cubes) at a substantial loss.",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2025,
        12,
        18
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2",
  "publisher": "Anthropic",
  "source": "vendor/anthropic-sitemap/research/project-vend-2.md"
}