Report: Anthropic Walks Away from $6B Decart Acquisition After Due Diligence
According to an exclusive Bloomberg report, Anthropic pulled out of roughly $6 billion acquisition talks with Israeli AI startup Decart after completing due diligence, killing the deal; the payment was reportedly to be made in pre-IPO shares. This is a rare large-scale M&A attempt by Anthropic to come to light.
Confirmed
- Bloomberg reported that Anthropic exited talks to acquire Decart for about $6 billion following due diligence, with Decart just weeks away from its IPO.
- Decart is a roughly 100-person company that built its own DOS inference engine, claims token speeds 8x faster than the industry, and works on AI video generation.
- Nvidia is already an investor (shareholder) in Decart.
Unconfirmed
- Multiple posters (including @ns123abc) stressed that the news is a leak and unverified, and that deal details should follow media reports.
- Nvidia was reportedly previously in talks to acquire Decart for around $8 billion, but Decart's stance toward Nvidia's offer remains unclear.
Why it matters
- This is one of Anthropic's few large M&A attempts to surface publicly, signaling its ambitions in media generation.
- Walking away after due diligence may reflect the caution of major AI players on M&A valuations and business integration; with Decart's IPO imminent, its next moves are worth watching.
2026-09-08 ~ 2026-09-08 · 5 related posts
Primary sources
- Anthropic Reportedly Abandons ~$6B Acquisition of Israeli AI Startup Decart Weeks Before Its IPO — ns123abc · 2026-09-08
- [source] Anthropic walked away from ~$6B Decart acquisition after due diligence, sources say — matt_slotnick · 2026-09-08