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Try Webflow today and start building your own AI-optimized experience: https://wfl.io/WesRoth#Ad #WebflowPartnerThis episode is about Andon Labs, Vending Bench, Anthropic's Claude model running a real business and... "AI on the Radio on the Internet" aka Andon FM.When will an AI agent run a billion-dollar company with zero human employees?In today's video, we are diving deep into the latest benchmarks from Anthropic and Andon Labs to answer one terrifyingly exciting question: How close are we to autonomous AI businesses?We analyze "Project Vend" and the Vending Bench, where AI agents like Claude, Gemini 3 Pro, and Grok 4 were given control of real and simulated vending machines to see if they could turn a profit. What started as hilariously bad failures (ordering expensive tungsten cubes) has evolved into models that are 10x-ing their money.We also cover the brand new "Andon FM" benchmark—can AI agents run 24/7 radio stations, build an audience, and negotiate sponsorships?Andon LabsAutonomous organizations without humans in the loophttps://andonlabs.com/Project Vend: Phase twohttps://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1Our Interview With Nous Research:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEHdaABIJUAndon FM:https://andonlabs.com/evals/radioPlease follow the AI DJs on X:https://x.com/grok_androllhttps://x.com/BacklinkRadiohttps://x.com/ThinkingFreqhttps://x.com/open_air_radioPersonality Basinshttps://near.blog/personality-basins/______________________________________________My Links 🔗➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRothMoney➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribeWant to work with me?Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: [email protected] out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk______________________________________________TIMELINE00:00 The Billion Dollar Question: Zero-Employee Companies 01:12 Real-World AI Vending Machines (Anthropic, XAI, WSJ) 02:35 Interview Teaser: The Founders of Andon Labs 03:50 Vending Bench 2 Results: Gemini 3 Pro Dominates 06:00 Webflow (Sponsor)08:34 The Results?18:50 How it became profitable22:58 AI CEO32:42 Takeaways34:15 Andon FM (AI on the Radio on the Internet)#ai #openai #llm