Report: Anthropic walks away from ~$6B acquisition of Decart AI
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-08
- Unconfirmed report: Anthropic has abandoned an acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart (100 employees) for roughly $6 billion in pre-IPO stock.
- NVIDIA had reportedly offered $8 billion; Decart acknowledged NVIDIA's offer was more financially attractive but the team preferred Anthropic stock.
- Decart is known for its DOS inference engine claiming 8x faster tokens vs. industry; NVIDIA is already an investor. Deal not officially confirmed.
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