Anthropic in talks to buy Israel's Decart for $6B, its largest deal yet
What's the deal? Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for roughly $6bn, according to reports attributed to Reuters and Bloomberg. It would be the largest acquisition in Anthropic's history and its first in Israel. Both companies declined to comment, and the talks are not final.
What does Decart do? Founded in 2023 and based in Tel Aviv, Decart builds an optimisation engine that squeezes more work out of the same chips, cutting the cost of training and running AI models. Its software improves efficiency not just on Nvidia processors but also on GoogleDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →'s TPU and Amazon's Trainium. It also has a generative video and world-models side, shown in its Oasis demo in October 2024.
Why now? The $6bn price reflects a rapid re-rating: Decart was valued at $3.1bn in August 2025, then near $4bn this May after a $300m round led by Radical VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. A $6bn deal marks roughly a 50% premium over that mark. Its backers include Zeev Ventures, Sequoia, Benchmark, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy.
What's the endgame? Anthropic is locked in a compute arms race, and cost is the number public-market investors will scrutinise most. Buying a company built to make each chip go further shores up infrastructure and controls costs.
How does this fit Anthropic's plans? Its valuation has climbed to around $965bn, and in early June it confidentially filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the paperwork that precedes a public listing. This would be its fifth acquisition of the year and by far the biggest. It recently signed a multi-year GPU deal with CoreWeave to run Claude at production scale.
What could go wrong? The deal could still collapse. Decart's graphic language models for gaming and 3D struggled to generate stable revenue, forcing frequent product changes, while the company spent tens of millions on computing resources and server space.
The signal: Anthropic was not the only suitor — Nvidia, SpaceXDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Amazon were all reportedly interested in Decart. When a chipmaker, a rocket company, and a cloud giant circle the same startup, efficiency has become a strategic asset. With an IPO in view and a cost-conscious market rewarding thrift, one of the loudest champions of scale is reportedly willing to pay a record sum to get leaner.
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