Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 13. The transaction has not been finalized, but if it goes through, it would be Anthropic’s biggest acquisition since the company was founded.
The report shifts the identity of the possible buyer after earlier market speculation pointed to SpaceX. Bloomberg’s Aug. 13 report instead named Anthropic.
Decart was founded in 2023 and has about 100 employees
Decart was founded in September 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, both of whom previously came from Israel’s Unit 8200 military intelligence division. The company has about 100 employees.
It has raised roughly $450 million to date. Its latest round brought in $300 million and valued the company at about $4 billion after the financing. Investors include NVIDIA and Amazon.
The company focuses on world models and cross-chip inference optimization
According to the report, Decart’s technology has two main tracks.
One is a cross-hardware inference optimization platform designed to let the same AI model run faster across different chip architectures. Decart said its agentic inference speed can reach 1,600 tokens per second.
The other is the world model itself. In practical terms, that means training AI systems to predict what happens next in a scene and then generate or alter video in real time. Decart said its system can produce video at 100 frames per second, allowing images to change instantly in response to user actions.
The report noted that both performance figures come from the company’s own claims and have not been verified by independent third-party testing.
Oasis reached 1 million users in three days, the company said
In October 2024, Decart launched Oasis, which it described as the world’s first real-time interactive generative AI video model. The company said the product passed 1 million users within three days of launch.
Earlier reports had linked Decart to NVIDIA, SpaceX, Amazon, and Nebius
Israeli media outlet Calcalist reported around Aug. 10 that NVIDIA had originally been in talks to buy Decart and was at one point close to a deal. That process reportedly changed late, after another international tech giant entered the picture and the founders shifted to a new buyer.
At the time, names mentioned in the market included SpaceX, Amazon, and cloud services provider Nebius. The reported valuation range was $6 billion to $7 billion, with a signing said to be possible within a week.
After that round of speculation, Bloomberg’s Aug. 13 report identified Anthropic as the buyer now in discussions.
The deal would give Anthropic a foothold in world models and AI video
As framed in the report, a $6 billion purchase of Decart would be relatively small inside Anthropic’s reported $900 billion valuation. Even so, it would give the company an entry point into world models and generative video, an area described in the article as the next competitive front after text and image generation.
The report said this segment stands out because it brings computing power, model development, and application-layer products into the same race at once.