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

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion, according to Bloomberg, in what would be the company’s largest acquisition to date if completed. The deal has not been finalized. Decart, founded in September 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, focuses on world models and cross-chip inference optimization. The company has about 100 employees, has raised roughly $450 million, and was last valued at about $4 billion after a $300 million round backed by investors including NVIDIA and Amazon. Decart said its optimization platform can deliver agentic inference speeds of up to 1,600 tokens per second, while its world-model system can generate video at 100 frames per second, though those figures have not been independently verified. In October 2024, the startup launched Oasis, which it described as the world’s first real-time interactive generative AI video model, and said the product passed 1 million users within three days. Israeli outlet Calcalist had earlier reported that NVIDIA was initially the leading buyer, before another international company entered the process. Possible buyers mentioned at the time included SpaceX, Amazon, and cloud provider Nebius, with a reported price range of $6 billion to $7 billion.