The acquisition was expected to help Anthropic’s compute infrastructure absorb growing demand.
Anthropic is backing away from talks to acquire Decart AI, a research start-up building technology that improves chip efficiency, Bloomberg reported today (8 September).
The deal was expected to be worth around $6bn, significantly higher than Decart’s reported valuation of nearly $4bn following a $300m raise earlier this year.
Backed by Nvidia, Benchmark, Adobe, Sequoia and Radical Ventures, among others, Decart’s AI infrastructure aims to improves training and inferencing capacities of AI models.
Its foundational model Lucy supposedly edits live video at the speed of a stream, while its so-called ‘world model’ Oasis, designed for physical AI, generates realistic simulations to train robots.
