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The number at the center of this story is $6 billion.
Bloomberg reported that Anthropic is in talks to buy AI startup Decart AI at that price, what would mark the Claude maker's largest known acquisition ahead of a hotly anticipated public offering.
The tension is visible: Anthropic, which rarely makes large acquisitions, is weighing a deal of that size while spending heavily on computing power to develop new products and serve customers.
The case for the deal is compute efficiency. Decart's software reduces the cost of training AI models by helping chips work more efficiently, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
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