Amazon talks to buy Decart for $7B as chip software draws a premium
The reported price would top Decart's $4 billion valuation in May, when it raised $300 million led by Radical Ventures.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: The Wall Street Journal
Why it matters
Amazon's reported talks to acquire Decart for around $7 billion suggest a potential price for software that helps AI workloads run across competing chips. They also raise a strategic question for AWS: whether owning that optimization layer strengthens Trainium or complicates a hardware-agnostic pitch.
Amazon is in talks to acquire Decart for around $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The potential deal would put software that helps AI developers use different chips at its center. The discussions have not produced a completed acquisition, and the reported price is not a confirmed offer or final valuation.…