Three different tech giants have now chased the same Israeli AI startup in under four months, and the price keeps climbing even as two of them gave up.
Amazon is in talks to acquire Decart, the Israeli startup behind real-time video and “world model” AI, according to people familiar with the matter. The potential deal could value Decart at around $7 billion, a sharp jump from the nearly $4 billion valuation the company fetched in a funding round led by Radical Ventures just months earlier. Earlier reports also linked SpaceX and cloud computing firm Nebius to interest in Decart, though Elon Musk publicly denied that SpaceX was negotiating for the company.
Decart has been through a strange few months. Nvidia, which had already invested in the company’s most recent funding round, entered exclusive talks to buy it outright. Those talks fell apart once a bigger offer showed up. Founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev then picked Anthropic over Nvidia’s higher bid, and the…
