Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI, an Nvidia-backed startup as the Claude maker explores acquisitions to help handle growing demand ahead of a planned public listing. The deal could be worth about $6 billion, reported Reuters citing source familiar with the matter.
Decart develops AI infrastructure and optimization technology as well as its own AI models, and could help Anthropic absorb more demand, the Reuters source said. An Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment, while Decart did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours.
Decart's Lucy model can edit live video in real time, according to the company's website. The company has also developed Oasis, a model that generates simulated environments to train and test robotics and autonomous-driving systems.
The deal is at an early stage, the source told Reuters, and if completed, Decart's team would join Anthropic's inference and performance organization, the report added.
Decart said in May it had raised $300 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia joining as a new investor.
The talks come as Anthropic prepares for what Reuters described as a mega IPO, moving to grow its computing power and address capacity constraints across its services. The company said last week it was hiring engineers with experience across the hardware and software stack to help co-design custom chips and AI models aimed at making Claude run faster and more efficiently.
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