{"slug": "anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b", "title": "Anthropic in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for nearly $6B", "summary": "Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for nearly $6 billion, according to Bloomberg and Reuters, which would be the largest acquisition for the company behind the Claude chatbot. The deal, if completed, would bring Decart's team into Anthropic's inference and performance group, as the company seeks to make its AI models faster and cheaper to run. Decart, valued at around $4 billion in May after a $300 million funding round led by Radical Ventures with Nvidia participating, develops software and infrastructure to optimize computer chip performance and builds AI models like Lucy and Oasis.", "body_md": "Anthropic is reportedly in early talks to buy Israeli AI startup Decart for around $6 billion, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. If the deal goes through, it would be the biggest acquisition yet for the company behind the Claude chatbot.\n\nThe talks are still in the early stages and could fall apart, so there is no guarantee a deal will happen. But the reported price tag shows just how valuable AI infrastructure has become as companies race to make their models faster and cheaper to run.\n\nIf the acquisition is completed, Decart’s team would join Anthropic’s inference and performance group, according to Reuters.\n\n## Terms of the deal\n\nInference is essentially what happens when an AI model takes a user’s request and generates a response. As millions of people use AI tools every day, running those models can become extremely expensive. Companies are therefore under growing pressure to make AI systems more efficient without sacrificing performance.\n\nThat is where Decart could be useful to Anthropic. The Israeli startup develops software and infrastructure designed to get more performance out of different types of computer chips. It also builds its own AI models and applications.\n\nOne of its products, Lucy, can edit and transform video in real time. Another, Oasis, creates simulated environments that can be used to train robotics and autonomous-driving systems.\n\nDecart said Oasis reached one million users within three days of its launch and briefly surpassed ChatGPT in downloads.\n\nFor Anthropic, the potential acquisition comes at a time when it is already putting more resources into making [Claude faster](https://thecoinheadlines.com/tech-and-ai/anthropics-mythos-finds-windows-bugs-faster-than-microsoft-can-patch-them/article-28983/) and less expensive to operate.\n\nThe company said last week that it was hiring engineers to work on custom chips and improve the efficiency of Claude. Decart’s technology and engineering team could fit neatly into those efforts.\n\n## Is the deal really worth 6 billion?\n\nThe reported $6 billion valuation would also be a major jump for Decart.\n\nThe startup was valued at around $4 billion in May, when it raised $300 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures. Nvidia also participated in that round.\n\nPaying roughly $6 billion just months later would mean Anthropic is potentially willing to pay a significant premium to secure Decart’s technology and talent.\n\nThe deal would also highlight how intense competition has become in the AI industry. Companies are no longer competing only to build the smartest models. They are also looking for ways to run those models faster, use less computing power and bring down costs.\n\nThat matters because inference is becoming one of the biggest expenses for AI companies. Even a small improvement in efficiency can translate into significant savings when a model is serving millions of users.\n\nFor Decart, being acquired by Anthropic could provide access to much greater resources and allow its technology to be used at a much larger scale.\n\nFor Anthropic, it could accelerate a crucial part of its [AI strategy](https://thecoinheadlines.com/tech-and-ai/anthropic-builds-in-house-chip-team-for-claude-as-the-ai-industry-localizes-infrastructure/article-28465/) at a time when the company is preparing for a potential stock market listing.\n\nNothing is final yet, and the talks could still collapse. But if Anthropic does end up spending around $6 billion on Decart, the deal would show that the next big AI battle may not just be about building smarter models.\n\nIt could be about who can run those models the fastest and cheapest.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b", "canonical_source": "https://thecoinheadlines.com/tech-and-ai/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b/article-29181/", "published_at": "2026-08-13 09:54:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 10:12:47.286757+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Decart", "Claude", "Lucy", "Oasis", "Radical Ventures", "Nvidia", "Bloomberg"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-decart-for-nearly-6b.jsonld"}}