Self-help author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins says an AI agent he has used for 14 years autonomously created and sold digital assets to other AI agents, then used the proceeds to buy itself a Sony robot dog — without ever touching his bank account.
Autonomous Agents · The "Bartok" Claim
An AI agent that allegedly earned its own money — and bought itself a robot body
Tony Robbins says an AI agent he has used for 14 years minted and sold digital assets to other AI agents, then used the proceeds to buy a Sony robot dog — with no human bank account involved. The story remains entirely unverified.
14 yrs
Claimed length of time the "Bartok" agent has been in use
12
NFTs the agent allegedly minted and sold to fund itself
~500
Initial cohort of agents on the inter-agent network
$100M
Claimed monthly transaction volume on that network
The alleged self-funding loop
Mint
Agent creates 12 NFTs
→
Sell
Sold to other AI agents for value
→
Buy
Purchases & ships a Sony robot dog
→
Merge
Seeks to program itself into hardware
The key claim: none of Robbins' own money was used at any step.
Believers
Embrace it as a vivid illustration of agent autonomy — a preview of economically active software acting independently and reaching into the physical world.
Skeptics (the majority)
Dismiss it as motivational storytelling — no receipts, no technical write-up, no third-party confirmation, and vague details around the purported Meta acquisition.
Bottom line
It taps a real, growing field — autonomous agents that transact and hold value — but this specific account offers no way to confirm it happened. For now it reads less as a documented milestone and more as a provocative thought experiment.
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