Anthropic is negotiating the purchase of Decart AI, a startup backed by Nvidia, as it prepares for an initial public offering and seeks to better meet rapidly growing demand for its Claude model. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the deal could be worth roughly $6 billion; Reuters is cited in the reporting.
What Decart builds
Decart develops AI-driven infrastructure and optimization technologies and also maintains its own models. Its portfolio includes a model called Lucy, which supports real-time video editing, and another project named Oasis. In May, Decart announced a $300 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia participating as a new investor.
Why Anthropic wants Decart
Sources familiar with the discussions say the acquisition could help Anthropic increase the compute capacity available to customers and eliminate performance bottlenecks affecting its services. If the deal proceeds, Decart’s team would be integrated into Anthropic’s inference and performance-optimization division.
Context: IPO preparations and scaling compute
Anthropic, developer of the Claude model, has been aggressively preparing for a public listing while working to scale up its computational resources amid surging usage. Last week the company said it is hiring engineers with both hardware and software expertise to co-design custom chips and AI models to make Claude faster and more efficient.
Deal status
The talks are at an early stage and details are still evolving. Should the acquisition close, it would align with Anthropic’s strategy to strengthen its infrastructure and operational capacity ahead of a potential IPO.
Notes
An AI assistant contributed to the preparation of this article; the final content was edited and verified by our journalist. Tags: acquisition, IPO, Decart, Anthropic, Nvidia, artificial intelligence, funding.
