Anthropic Nears $7 Billion Decart Deal as Nvidia's Higher Offer Falls Short

3 articles · Updated · CTech · Aug 16

$7 billion is the expected valuation in Anthropic's near-final talks to buy Israeli AI startup Decart, with the sides exchanging advanced drafts and a signing possible as soon as next month.
Anthropic became Decart's preferred buyer even after Nvidia offered a higher valuation, because founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev and top investor Sequoia see it as the stronger long-term home.
100 employees and $450 million raised since 2023 have helped make Decart strategically valuable, with technology that can speed AI model inference by up to eight times across multiple chip architectures.
Anthropic is pursuing the acquisition while preparing a September or October IPO, after Bloomberg reported second-quarter revenue surged 14-fold to $11.5 billion and the company reached positive EBITDA.
For Israel, the deal could do more than deliver a quick exit: it would give Anthropic its first local development center and deepen the country's role in core AI infrastructure.