Anthropic is in the talks to buy the AI startup Decart for about $60 billion, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter. The deal has not been finalized. If the deal is finalized, it would be Anthropic’s largest known acquisition.
Decart’s software can reduce the cost of training artificial intelligence models by helping chips work more efficiently. This would help Anthropic’s existing infrastructure absorb more demand at a time when the company has been spending heavily on computing power to develop new products and serve customers.
Decart’s team would join Anthropic’s inference and performance organization, according to media reports. Decart also focuses on generative video, using so-called world models capable of modifying live video feeds instantly.
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Decart said in May that it raised $300 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia Corp., Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Adobe Ventures joining the round. Prior investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Zeev Ventures also participated. The funding round valued the startup at almost $4 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, up from $3.1 billion in August 2025.
Decart was founded by three Israeli engineers — brothers Dean and Orian Leitersdorf, and Moshe Shalev in 2023.
This comes ahead of Anthropic’s much-anticipated IPO. The company filed paperwork for the offering in June, and if completed, the IPO could become one of the largest technology listings tied directly to the generative AI boom and serve as a key test of investor appetite for pure-play artificial intelligence companies entering public markets.
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Anthropic has been expanding its chip and compute partnerships to address capacity constraints. It has previously agreed to use Amazon Web Services’ custom Trainium chips in a long-term arrangement, announced plans to use Google ‘s tensor processing unit chips, and reached a deal with SpaceX for computing power.
Anthropic also recently entered a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta, according to Bloomberg. Volta, which was founded in 2026, will provide cloud compute to the Claude-maker over a six-year period. Crypto-mining company Bitdeer is partnering with Volta to develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. The facility, which will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, will be located in Norway and will deliver a 133-megawatt capacity. Volta is part of Nvidia’s Cloud Partner program — a consortium of AI cloud providers that use Nvidia’s GPUs in their data centers.