Amazon Eyes Massive $7 Billion Deal in Fresh Nvidia Challenge

Amazon AMZN is reportedly exploring a roughly $7 billion acquisition of AI startup Decart, a deal that could deepen Amazon Web Services’ push into custom AI chips and give the company another weapon in its effort to compete with Nvidia NVDA.

According to The Wall Street Journal, talks are ongoing and a deal is not guaranteed.

Decart, founded in 2023, develops software that helps AI developers move workloads between different chip platforms. That flexibility could be strategically useful for Amazon because AWS has spent heavily building its own Trainium processors as a lower-cost alternative to Nvidia’s dominant AI accelerators.

AWS gave Decart early access to its Trainium3 chip in 2025, highlighting an existing relationship between the two companies.

A takeover would also come at a hefty premium.

Decart was reportedly valued at nearly $4 billion in May, meaning a deal around $7 billion would represent a substantial increase in just a few months.

But Decart offers more than…