Amazon is reportedly weighing a roughly $7 billion purchase of Decart, an artificial intelligence startup whose software helps developers switch between chips, according to the Wall Street Journal the Journal reported.
The talks could still collapse, or another bidder could step in talks could collapse.
Decart, founded in 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf, Moshe Shalev and Orian Leitersdorf, builds real-time generative video and interactive world models, including products called Oasis and Lucy.
It raised $300 million in a Series B round in May led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia among the investors, valuing the company at nearly $4 billion; Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Zeev Ventures also took part.
Amazon Web Services gave Decart early access to its custom Trainium3 chip in 2025, and the startup's ability to move workloads across chip architectures is becoming more valuable as companies race to secure computing capacity early access to Trainium3.
Futurum Equities strategist Shay Boloor said on X that Amazon is "effectively buying software expertise" to improve Trainium utilization and make its custom silicon more attractive as AI workloads spread across different chip types.
Anthropic had also been in talks to buy Decart for about $6 billion but walked away in September, Bloomberg reported.
A deal would extend Amazon's buildout of proprietary AI infrastructure, which already spans Trainium and Inferentia chip development alongside its multibillion-dollar investments in Anthropic and OpenAI.
