{
  "id": 13896095,
  "title": "Amazon In Talks To Buy Israeli AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion; Anthropic Decided Against Acquiring For $6 Billion Last Month",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-israeli-ai-startup-decart-for-around-7-billion",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T06:05:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-israeli-ai-startup-decart-for-around-7-billion-anthropic-decided-against-acquiring-for-6-billion-last-month"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Amazon is reportedly in discussions to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart in a deal valued at approximately $7 billion. Should negotiations fall through or a rival bidder emerge, the transaction might not be finalized. Sources indicate a potential agreement could be reached within days. According to reports, Amazon's pursuit of Decart follows a previous interest from another AI company. In the previous month, Anthropic considered purchasing Decart for about $6 billion, but ultimately decided against it following due diligence. In August, other potential suitors included SpaceX, Nebius, and Nvidia, which had been engaged in advanced talks that ultimately fell through due to competing offers. In May, Decart was valued at around $4 billion, according to PitchBook data, following its $300 million funding round led by Radical Ventures and involving Nvidia as a new investor. This investment brought Decart's total funding to over $450 million. Decart's Lucy model, backed by Nvidia, enables real-time editing of live video, while Oasis, another model developed by the company, creates simulated environments for training and testing robotics and autonomous driving systems. Additionally, Decart has created software that simplifies the process of running AI models on various processors, a crucial capability as companies vie for computing power. Amazon stands to benefit from Decart's software, which could be advantageous for its AWS, which provides custom AI processors called Trainium3 for training AI models. Decart reportedly received early access to Trainium3 last year, following a meeting with senior AWS engineers.",
  "summary": "Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire the AI startup Decart in a deal that could be valued at around $7 billion. A deal could be struck soon if the talks do not collapse or a rival bidder does not emerge. Reports suggest an agreement could be wrapped up in the coming days. Anthropic walked away last month WSJ reports that Amazon's move follows an earlier approach from another AI company.…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}