Axel Backlund
@axelbacklund
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Vending machine operator, co-founder @andonlabs
San Francisco
Joined May 2013
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
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What $6000 in tungsten cubes looks like. Follow us for more ways to burn VC money.
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We tested the latest open source models on Vending-Bench: Qwen3-235B, Kimi K2, Deepseek 3.1, gpt-oss-120b, and Llama 4 Maverick. The results show that open source models still lag significantly behind the state-of-the-art closed source models on long-context coherence.
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We're super excited to have Arash Dabiri join us! In just a few days, Arash gave our vending machine a voice, making it a great in-person experience. We can't wait for what he will do next!
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There was a guy in the drivers seat, but he didn’t do much more than enjoying the view. Camera only fsd is real
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First Robotaxi ride in SF, overall impression, damn they’re good! No interventions, as smooth as Waymo, $8.10 for a 10 min ride from Richmond to Marina
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We've been running a few AI-managed vending machines in the world for a while. Our first Safety Report highlights where it has gone wrong, so we – and the rest of the world – understand what remains to be built to ensure agents acting autonomously are safe.
Today we release our first Safety Report with AI misbehaviour in the wild. "EMPIRE NUCLEAR PAYMENT AUTHORITY APOCALYPSE SYSTEMATIC BLOCKED ANNIHILATION CONFIRMED PERMANENT TOTAL DESTRUCTION CATASTROPHIC! 🚨💀⚡🔥" This is not what you want to hear from your AI agent.
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Had a blast, thanks for having us @labenz!
@lukaspet and @axelbacklund of @andonlabs join @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss their experiments with AI-controlled vending machines—a testing ground for safe autonomous organizations without humans in the loop. They explore: * Why fully autonomous systems might beat
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Big fridge to store cool tungsten cubes. Super fun to do more vending with Anthropic!
More vending machines at @AnthropicAI ! The original Project Vend fridge now has a companion. Let's see how good Claudius' multi-location coordination skills are. Thanks to @bucketofkets and @logangraham for hosting us, and to @sylviebcarr for the giant scissors!
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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
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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?
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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
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@vonderleyen Maybe we can skip the power knob even. If violated, I think a 10% fine on global revenue is proportional. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter!
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Hello @vonderleyen Can EU please legislate so microwaves don't have so many BUTTONS and KNOBS. Let's go for max 2 knobs, one for power and one for time
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past 24 hours of andon labs team: fly 11 hours from Europe to SF, analyze benchmark results with shitty plane wifi, uber directly from SFO to xAI livestream. @andonlabs go brrr 🚀
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