Anthropic in Talks to Buy Decart AI for About $6 Billion
On August 13, 2026, Bloomberg reported Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart AI—real-time generative video, world models, and GPU-efficiency tech—for about $6 billion, which would be Anthropic’s largest known deal; the talks are early and could still fall through.
TLDR
Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for about $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 13, 2026, 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; Anthropic has not posted a newsroom confirmation.
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 |
| Date | August 13, 2026 | Exclusive window |
| Why Decart | Video simulation / world models; inference and GPU efficiency into Anthropic’s inference team (Fortune/Bloomberg sources) | 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. The backfill bar still treats named parties + dollar scale + structure from a major exclusive as a first-class financing / M&A story.
Why this story matters
Closed-frontier labs rarely buy $6 billion inference/video shops this close to a listing. Decart’s NVIDIA-backed efficiency stack would be a hedge against token-cost wars (and against Google TPU / Amazon Trainium lock-in). Watch: whether CFIUS/Israeli export review appears, whether NVIDIA’s cap table complicates the close, and whether the talks die the way many pre-IPO shopping trips do.