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Anthropic is in acquisition talks for Israeli artificial intelligence startup Decart AI at a valuation of approximately $6bn, local Israeli media reported.
As the AI race continues to intensify, so too has the battle to acquire the Israeli AI company, which specialises in generating simulated 3D environments and instantly transforming live video feeds.
The Claude AI developer joins a crowded field, with Nvidia, Amazon, and SpaceX all listed as interested parties in Decart’s acquisition in recent weeks. Nvidia had been in exclusive talks to acquire Decart and participated in its most recent funding round, but negotiations collapsed after a larger bidder entered, Hebrew language Calcalist reported.
Decart, founded in 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, both veterans of IDF intelligence unit 8200, has raised $450mn across four rounds in under three years.
Its seed round of $21mn was led by Sequoia Capital, followed within a month by a $25mn round at a $500mn valuation led by Benchmark. A third round valued the company at $3.1bn, and in early 2026 it closed a further $300mn at a $4bn valuation, with Israel's Aleph Fund joining the cap table.
Decart's core technology generates video in real time at significantly lower computational cost than competing models, positioning it as infrastructure-layer software for AI hardware manufacturers.
The company gained wide attention with OASIS, a real-time generative game that reached 1mn users in three days. Decart is also developing world models capable of modifying live video feeds in real time, a capability viewed as evidence of the depth of its infrastructure engineering.
For Anthropic, which has been spending heavily on computing capacity to develop and support its Claude model family, Decart's chip-efficiency software could reduce the cost of running AI workloads at scale.
If a deal closes, Decart's engineering team is expected to join Anthropic's inference and performance organisation, Ascendants reported, suggesting the transaction is as much a talent acquisition as a technology one.
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