{"slug": "anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup", "title": "Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup", "summary": "Anthropic is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion, according to Bloomberg. Decart's optimization engine, DOS, could help Anthropic reduce compute costs, which currently include $1.25 billion per month paid to xAI. The deal is not finalized and could still fall through.", "body_md": "In [one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion) you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation, it’s being reported that Anthropic might soon buy the AI lab Decart for roughly $6 billion.\n\nDecart doesn’t promote itself via the sort of drab, enterprise-focused coding and productivity tools you may associate with the home of Claude Code. Anthropic has never released an image generator, let alone a Sora-style video generator. Instead, it releases [austere, hand-wringing blog posts](https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential), and [plugins that attempt to make paralegals obsolete](https://www.anthropic.com/webinars/claude-for-legal-teams).\n\nBut Decart, it seems, likes to party:\n\nSo why would Anthropic hypothetically be interested in buying this?\n\nYou have to understand what’s under the hood. [Decart promotes itself as the creator of Lucy, Oasis, and DOS](https://decart.ai/research) (No, not [that DOS](https://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-download-the-original-source-code-for-ms-do-1551823186). Go take your Lipitor if you thought that). Lucy is a video model that accomplishes what you might call “deepfake passes” in real-time, changing faces and other details in high-quality live video. Oasis is marketed as an interactive world model, which you might recall seeing way back in 2024 when it generated what was effectively a [playable version of Minecraft from image inputs](https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ive-seen-the-future-of-gaming-ai-model-creates-playable-minecraft-from-a-picture).\n\nDOS is the engine that drives Lucy and Oasis, and that’s evidently what interests Anthropic. The name stands for Decart Optimization Stack. Decart calls it “A vertically integrated inference and training platform for real-time AI workloads, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers, and inference optimization.”\n\nYou could say compute is getting pretty expensive for Anthropic. For example, Anthropic [pays xAI $1.25 billion per month](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-will-pay-xai-1-25-billion-per-month-for-compute/) to train and/or run AI models in its enormous data centers. Decart [claims](https://decart.ai/optimization-engine) that DOS “squeezes every ounce of performance from every chip, across inference, training and hardware so AI teams can run faster, cheaper and at higher utilization.” That could, if its real, be worth $6 billion to a company [eyeing the largest IPO of all time](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-tries-to-shore-up-investor-confidence-ahead-of-blockbuster-ipo-0ff736ad).\n\nNote that the story is sourced to “people familiar with the matter,” and Bloomberg says the deal could still crumble.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup", "canonical_source": "https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup-2000798105", "published_at": "2026-08-13 09:30:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 09:47:13.267637+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Decart", "Bloomberg", "xAI", "DOS", "Lucy", "Oasis"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-this-seemingly-un-anthropic-like-startup.jsonld"}}