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We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
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We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs Blog post We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit Posted 4/10/2026 At Andon Labs, we have been deploying AI agents into the real world, giving them real tools and real money and documenting the consequences. You may know us as the creators of Claudius, the AI running a vending machine at Anthropic’s office . But frontier models have become really good, and running vending machines is too easy for them now. Thus, we decided to make it harder. We signed a 3 year lease for retail s
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