Anthropic reportedly in talks to buy AI infrastructure startup Decart for $6B
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire AI infrastructure startup Decart for around $6 billion, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the discussions. Neither company has confirmed the talks publicly, and — as with any reported, in-progress negotiation — the terms and even whether a deal happens at all could still change.
What Decart is reported to focus on
Decart works on compute-efficiency infrastructure — the kind of technology aimed at making AI training and inference genuinely cheaper to run, rather than a consumer-facing product. If accurate, this would fit a broader, real pattern among frontier AI labs: acquiring infrastructure companies to control cost and efficiency directly, rather than relying entirely on external chip and cloud providers.
Why this would be Anthropic's largest deal
Reporting frames this as potentially Anthropic's largest acquisition to date, which — if the reported $6 billion figure holds — would represent a real, significant step up in how much capital Anthropic is willing to commit to an acquisition versus organic infrastructure investment.
This is genuinely still a "reportedly in talks" story, not a confirmed transaction — worth treating the specific price and terms as provisional until either company issues an official statement, rather than as settled fact.
Source: www.bloomberg.com