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Anthropic to Buy Decart in $6B Acquisition Deal

8/19/2026

Summary

Story summary

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli startup Decart using Anthropic shares.
Anthropic’s revenue run rate rose to $65 billion by July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion in 2025.
The firm forecasts $190 billion-$200 billion revenue in 2028 as a benchmark for its planned IPO.
Decart, which raised $300 million in May 2026 led by Radical Ventures and Nvidia, provides the Lucy video-editing and Oasis simulation models.

History

Historical Context

In 2014 Google bought the London AI lab DeepMind for about £400 million, integrating its reinforcement-learning breakthroughs such as AlphaGo’s 2016 win over Lee Sedol. That deal set a pattern of large global AI purchases, which Anthropic followed in 2026 by spending a significant $6 billion for Israeli startup Decart, echoing Google’s consolidation strategy.

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Story summary

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli startup Decart using Anthropic shares.
Anthropic’s revenue run rate rose to $65 billion by July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion in 2025.
The firm forecasts $190 billion-$200 billion revenue in 2028 as a benchmark for its planned IPO.
Decart, which raised $300 million in May 2026 led by Radical Ventures and Nvidia, provides the Lucy video-editing and Oasis simulation models.

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