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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is reportedly exploring a roughly $7 billion acquisition of AI startup Decart, a deal that could deepen Amazon Web Services' push into custom AI chips and give the company another weapon in its effort to compete with Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA).
According to The Wall Street Journal, talks are ongoing and a deal is not guaranteed.
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Decart, founded in 2023, develops software that helps AI developers move workloads between different chip platforms. That flexibility could be strategically useful for Amazon because AWS has spent heavily building its own Trainium processors as a lower-cost alternative to Nvidia's dominant AI accelerators.
AWS gave Decart early access to its Trainium3 chip in 2025, highlighting an existing relationship between the two companies.
Decart was reportedly valued at nearly $4 billion in May, meaning a deal around $7 billion would represent a substantial increase in just a few months.
But Decart offers more than chip-management software.
The startup is also developing AI world models, including Lucy and Oasis, designed to generate and simulate three-dimensional environments. Those technologies could have applications in robotics, autonomous driving and other areas where AI systems need to understand and interact with simulated environments.
Decart has already raised more than $400 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Radical Ventures.
I think the most important angle here is that Amazon appears to be attacking Nvidia's moat from the software side as well as the hardware side.
Building Trainium chips is only part of the challenge. AWS also needs to make it easier for developers to move workloads onto those chips without being locked into one hardware ecosystem.
Decart's software could help reduce that friction.
That matters because the real battle in AI infrastructure is not simply who designs the fastest chip. It is also about developer adoption, switching costs and the software layer connecting models to hardware.
A $7 billion deal would be expensive relative to Decart's recent valuation, so investors would need to see clear strategic benefits.
For Amazon, the metrics to watch would be Trainium adoption, AWS AI growth, customer migration away from Nvidia-heavy workloads and whether Decart's world-model technology becomes commercially meaningful.
If Amazon can make its chips easier to adopt while expanding into advanced AI models, the deal could strengthen AWS's position across multiple layers of the AI stack.
