Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for roughly $6 billion The deal has not been finalized and could fall through, Bloomberg said
Decart develops world models alongside software designed to lower AI training expenses by improving how efficiently chips are utilized. That capability could allow Anthropic to get more out of its current infrastructure as demand grows. If the deal closes, Decart’s team would join Anthropic’s inference and performance organization.
Founded in 2023 by Israeli brothers Dean and Orian Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, Decart has also developed AI models with consumer-facing applications. The company’s Lucy model processes live video feeds to produce real-time footage showing people wearing clothing or accessories, addressing a longstanding challenge in fashion e-commerce. E-commerce platform eBay is both an investor in and a customer of the company. Decart’s Oasis model is built to create synthetic environments used in the development of robotics and self-driving technology.
In May, Decart raised $300 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Adobe Ventures joining. That round valued the startup at nearly $4 billion, up from $3.1 billion in August 2025. A $6 billion deal would represent a premium of roughly 50% over that valuation
The acquisition would be Anthropic’s largest to date and would mark its fifth of the year which submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the SEC in early June in preparation for a widely anticipated IPO, has been directing significant resources toward compute capacity as it expands its product offerings and customer base
Anthropic has been expanding its chip and compute partnerships to address capacity constraints. It has previously agreed to use Amazon Web Services’ custom Trainium chips in a long-term arrangement, announced plans to use Google’s tensor processing unit chips, and reached a deal with SpaceX for computing power. The company has also been in talks to lease computing capacity from Meta in an arrangement that could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years, according to the New York Times. Last week, Anthropic said it was hiring engineers to help co-design custom chips and AI models to make its Claude models run faster and at lower cost.
Representatives for Anthropic and Decart declined to comment.
