The trick: Announced Not Shipped
Anthropic's largest acquisition ever was announced by everyone except Anthropic.
Reported price: $6 billion. Last known valuation: almost $4 billion, in May. Signatures: zero. Comment from either company: none.
Anthropic is in talks to buy Israeli AI startup Decart for about $6 billion, in what would be its largest known acquisition, to cut AI compute costs ahead of its IPO
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Reported price: $6 billion. Last known valuation: almost $4 billion, in May. Signatures: zero. Comment from either company: none.
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Receipts
- Supports finance.yahoo.com:
Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Refutes finance.yahoo.com:
The deal has not been finalized and talks could fall through, said some of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private negotiations.
- Context finance.yahoo.com:
The round valued the startup at almost $4 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, up from $3.1 billion in August 2025.
- Context pymnts.com:
Decart also builds world models that are designed to simulate the physical world and help businesses with applications such as autonomous driving and eCommerce.
- Context en.bloomingbit.io:
No final agreement has been reached, and the negotiations could still collapse.
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