Amazon reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for $7B
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to buy Decart, a three-year-old startup that builds software to run AI models faster on multiple chip types. The deal, said to be around $7 billion according to The Wall Street Journal, could help Amazon steer more AI developers toward its custom Trainium chips instead of Nvidia hardware. The companies haven’t confirmed the talks. Decart has made its software compatible with chips from Nvidia, Google, and Amazon, and counts eBay among its customers and investors.
- Deal could be worth about $7 billion
- No official comment from Amazon or Decart
- Decart's software runs on Nvidia, Google, and Amazon chips
- eBay is a customer and investor in Decart
- Decart was founded in 2023 by the Leitersdorf brothers and Moshe Shalev
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