Founded only three years ago, Israeli artificial intelligence startup Decart is reportedly in talks to be acquired by American AI giant and Claude chatbot developer Anthropic for as much as $6 billion.

The talks — which have not been finalized and could still fall through — were first reported by Bloomberg. If the deal comes to fruition, it would mark Anthropic’s first acquisition in Israel, and its largest to date. Started by a group of former OpenAI researchers in 2021, Anthropic is the developer of so-called large language models or LLMs, the advanced AI technology behind conversational chatbots such as Claude AI or ChatGPT.

Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment, and Decart declined to do so. Meanwhile, Elon Musk dismissed a report by Israeli financial daily Calcalist that SpaceX was in talks to buy Decart. Previously, US chip giant Nvidia was reportedly vying to purchase the Israeli AI startup.

Decart was founded in late 2023 by 27-year-old Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, who connected during their military service in Israel’s military intelligence unit 8200.

Decart has built a software platform to train massive, real-time generative AI models across Nvidia, Amazon and Google processors. The platform is designed to optimize the utility of chips needed for training and running AI models. The technology cuts the computing cost of training AI models by helping chips work more........

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