Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

Published Aug 13, 01:50 AM UTC

Anthropic PBC is in negotiations to acquire artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for approximately $6 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The deal, which has not been finalized and could still collapse, would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition ahead of its anticipated initial public offering. Decart's software improves chip efficiency, reducing the cost of training AI models, which could help Anthropic's infrastructure handle more demand. Decart also works on generative video using world models that modify live video feeds. If completed, Decart's team would join Anthropic's inference and performance organization. Decart, founded in 2023 by Israeli engineers Dean and Orian Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, raised $300 million in May at a nearly $4 billion valuation, with investors including Radical Ventures, Nvidia, Sequoia Capital, and Benchmark. Both Anthropic and OpenAI are spending heavily on data centers and chips to support cutting-edge AI models as they prepare for public market debuts.