Anthropic Reportedly in Talks to Buy Decart for About $6 Billion
Bloomberg reported talks for Anthropic to acquire Decart for about $6B. Later Times of Israel coverage describes video and chip-efficiency technology and says talks could fail; Anthropic did not respond to its comment request.
Correction / update, October 14, 2026: Replaced unsupported regulatory and newsroom-absence assertions with the reporting’s explicit deal and comment limits. Later Times of Israel coverage is used as a source check.
A potential Decart acquisition would add video-model and chip-efficiency technology to Anthropic. Whether those capabilities would lower its costs remains an inference, rather than a disclosed deal result.
Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for about $6 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Decart is an Israeli startup working on real-time generative video, world models, and chip-efficiency / GPU optimization. A deal at that price would be Anthropic’s largest known acquisition and a roughly 50% premium to Decart’s nearly $4 billion valuation after a $300 million May 2026 round that included NVIDIA. Talks are not signed and could still fall through; the cited report says Anthropic did not respond to a comment request.
What the reporting supports#
| Item | Detail | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Parties | Anthropic PBC; Decart AI (founders Dean Leitersdorf, Moshe Shalev per Times of Israel) | Named by Bloomberg / follow-ons |
| Price | About $6 billion | “Talks,” not a signed SPA |
| Why Decart | Video simulation / world models; chip efficiency that could help Anthropic handle demand (Times of Israel, citing Bloomberg) | Strategic rationale is sourced, not official |
| Prior round | $300 million (May), Radical Ventures lead; NVIDIA, Atreides, Valor, Adobe Ventures; ~$4B valuation | Public follow-on reporting |
| IPO context | Bloomberg framed the talks ahead of Anthropic’s anticipated IPO | Not a closing condition |
This is talks, not a close.
Limits#
- Could still fall through; no SPA.
- The sources establish no regulatory decision or completed transaction.
- Anthropic did not respond to the cited report’s request for comment.