Anthropic in Talks to Buy Israeli World-Model Startup Decart for $6B — Its Largest Deal Ever, Pre-IPO
Bloomberg reported on August 13 that Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Decart for roughly $6 billion, which would be its biggest known acquisition and lands directly ahead of its anticipated IPO. Decart, founded in 2023 by three Israeli engineers, closed a $300M round led by Radical Ventures in May at a ~$4B valuation, so this is a ~50% premium; its products include Oasis (generated simulated environments for robotics and autonomous-driving training) and Lucy (real-time live video editing). Multiple outlets frame the strategic logic as compute efficiency rather than world models — Decart's software makes chips run AI training cheaper, which would let Anthropic's existing infrastructure absorb more demand. Talks are unconfirmed and could collapse.
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