Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart for about $6–7 billion

On August 13 Fortune, citing Bloomberg, reported that Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart AI for about $6 billion. The outlets stressed the deal is not finalized and could fall through. Decart builds software that helps chips run training and inference more efficiently and works on world models that simulate physical scenes.

What later reporting added

Israeli outlet Ctech wrote on August 16 that the parties were exchanging advanced drafts, that founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev plus Sequoia preferred Anthropic over a higher Nvidia bid, and that the working valuation had moved to about $7 billion, mostly in Anthropic shares, possibly signing ahead of a rumored autumn IPO. None of that is a signed contract.

• Bloomberg/Fortune (Aug 13): ~$6 billion, talks only
• Ctech (Aug 16): ~$7 billion, drafts circulating, not signed
• Decart’s May round: ~$4 billion valuation on $300 million raised

Takeaways

• Treat this as talks, not a close
• If it happens it would be Anthropic’s largest disclosed acquisition
• The industrial logic in the reports is inference cost and world models, not a chatbot brand

Source: Fortune / Bloomberg