Anthropic Reportedly Abandons ~$6B Acquisition of Israeli AI Startup Decart Weeks Before Its IPO
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-08
An unverified report claims Anthropic has walked away from an $6 billion pre-IPO stock acquisition of Decart, a 100-person Israeli AI startup behind a "DOS" inference engine reportedly 8x faster than industry tokens. The backstory: Nvidia (already an investor) first offered $8 billion in cash, and Anthropic countered with $6B in pre-IPO equity. Decart reportedly said Nvidia's offer was financially more attractive but preferred Anthropic stock. Dario Amodei allegedly worried the founders were joining for money rather than mission, ran months of due diligence, then killed the deal weeks before Decart's IPO with "no reason given." Not officially confirmed.
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