Andon Labs

Long-horizon autonomy benchmarks like Vending-Bench

Andon Labs (YC, formerly Vectorview) builds benchmarks and evaluations for AI agents' long-horizon coherence and safety, including Vending-Bench, Butter-Bench, and Blueprint-Bench, and deploys agents into real-world businesses. It partnered with Anthropic on Project Vend, letting Claude run a real office vending machine.

Anthropic's Project Vend collaboration; Vending-Bench

Websiteandonlabs.com
DomainsLong Horizon, Alignment
LocationSan Francisco
Team size1-10
FundingSeed (Y Combinator)
FoundersLukas Petersson, Axel Backlund

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