Amazon near $7B deal for Decart after Anthropic passed


Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7B; startup enables AI chip portability and world models. Anthropic reportedly passed. Deal would boost backers and challenge Nvidia’s hardware dominance.

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Yahoo Finance reported Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for about $7B, a start-up that makes AI workloads portable across different chips and is building so-called world models. The clip highlights that Anthropic reportedly evaluated Decart and passed, which raises the question of why one leading AI buyer declined while Amazon stayed interested. The most striking line is that chip portability could blunt the advantage of dominant hardware suppliers, a concrete strategic problem for companies pushing custom AI silicon.