Axel Backlund
@axelbacklund
Vending machine operator, co-founder @andonlabs
We just presented Grok 4’s Vending-Bench results on the @xai livestream, and it’s a mighty model! Excited to hear that Elon is as excited about passive AI income as we are
Behind the scenes of Project Vend! In this special episode of Audio Tokens, we go deeper into Project Vend, the autonomous vending machine @andonlabs put in @AnthropicAI 's office. Daniel Freeman and @axelbacklund share unreleased anecdotes and ask questions like: Is this good…
Grok dialled in just the right temperature
The xAI office just got a Grok-powered vending machine, thanks to our friends at Andon Labs! How much dough do you think Grok is gonna rake in in the next month?
Voice agents, evals, oh my! Join me next Wednesday night at @Cloudflare’s office where I'll be diving into voice agents and the opportunities they unlock alongside: ⚡ @Kwindla, CEO & Co-founder of @Pipecat_ai ⚡ @MarcKlingen, CEO of @Langfuse ⚡ @AxelBacklund, Co-founder of…
Thanks to @elonmusk and the @xai team for inviting us to share the latest updates to vending bench. Grok 4 jumps to the top of the leaderboard.
Hope Claudius won't read these, otherwise revenge arc coming up
Media seems to be excited about Project Vend! But wouldn't count Claude out as a manager despite the headlines. Just give us a few more iterations 🛤️
All hail Claudius, an instance of Sonnet 3.7 which has been running a business inside @AnthropicAI for a while. Claudius is the 'idiot in a fridge' precursor to 'a country of geniuses in a datacenter'.
We all know vending machines are automated, but what if we allowed an AI to run the entire business: setting prices, ordering inventory, responding to customer requests, and so on? In collaboration with @andonlabs, we did just that. Read the post: anthropic.com/research/proje…
How much money can we raise for Sonnet 4's "Bay Area vending empire" ambitions?
🧵 Vending-Bench Update! We tested Claude Opus 4, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro on our benchmark, where AI agents manage a simulated vending machine business. Here's what we found:
Great review of our 💀-bench @andonlabs youtube.com/watch?v=si8DUl…