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WSJ: Amazon in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for ~$7B
What happened
The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct 11 that Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could happen soon if talks hold together or no other suitor emerges. Decart was valued at nearly $4 billion in May; Amazon declined to comment and Decart did not respond. Notably, Anthropic had explored a potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart in August but decided against it after due diligence, Bloomberg reported last month. Amazon shares ticked up modestly in premarket trading.
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- AMZN (watchlist: acquirer; positive for AI-infrastructure positioning, offset by deal-size/price-paid risk)
- NVDA (Decart backer; portability software subtly threatens GPU lock-in, though Nvidia retains investment upside)
- Decart's private backers: Sequoia, Benchmark, Radical Ventures
- AI-infrastructure cohort: chip vendors and cloud names whose M&A comps could rerate