Bloomberg reported this morning, August 13, that Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart AI for around $6 billion. Talks, not a signed deal. That distinction matters and I will come back to it.
What caught my attention is not the number. It is where Decart came from.
The Minecraft thing
Decart got famous for Oasis: a playable Minecraft-looking world that no game engine was rendering. The model predicted every next frame based on what you pressed on the keyboard. 20 FPS, interactive, no scene graph, no collision system, no assets. Just a model hallucinating a consistent world fast enough that your hands believed it.
In late 2024 that read as an impressive demo with no obvious business behind it.
