WSJ learned about the negotiations of Amazon to buy AI startup Decart for $ 7 billion
The purchase will allow Amazon to strengthen its position in the field of AI chips amid competition with Nvidia, the newspaper notes. In 2025, the cloud division of AWS gave Decart early access to its own Trainium3 chip
Amazon is in talks to buy a startup in the field of artificial intelligence Decart, the deal could amount to about $ 7 billion, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation.
San Francisco-based Decart is developing software that simplifies the transition between different AI chips. This opportunity is becoming increasingly important against the background of the desire of companies to provide themselves with additional computing power, the publication notes.
According to WSJ sources, the deal could take place in the near future if negotiations do not break down and another potential buyer does not appear.
Decart was founded in 2023 by three Israeli engineers, brothers Dean and Orian Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev. The company also develops global Lucy and Oasis models capable of generating and modeling three-dimensional real-world environments.
According to the financial platform PitchBook, which leads the WSJ, the startup has attracted more than $ 400 million in venture investments from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Radical Ventures. In May, its value was estimated at almost $4 billion.
Amazon has developed its own Trainium3 AI chip, competing with Nvidia’s products, which dominate the GPU market used to run AI systems. In 2025, Amazon Web Services gave Decart early access to the chip after a meeting with the company and a positive assessment of its founders.
Other major acquisitions by Amazon in recent years include MGM for $6.5 billion in 2022. Earlier this year, the company announced a deal to buy Globalstar, a Starlink rival, for about $11 billion.
In September, Bloomberg, citing a source, reported that Anthropic (the developer of the Claude chatbot) decided not to acquire Decart, despite considering buying the startup.
According to the agency, Anthropic conducted a legal review of Decart, but eventually refused the deal. At the same time, cooperation between the companies can continue in other forms, one of the interlocutors told Bloomberg.
In August, the agency wrote that Anthropic had begun negotiations to acquire Decart for about $6 billion. Sources of the agency noted that the negotiations could end without a deal.
