{"id":628197,"date":"2026-10-12T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628197\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:40:08","slug":"amazon-nears-7-billion-deal-for-israeli-ai-start-up-decart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628197\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon nears $7 billion deal for Israeli AI start-up Decart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is in talks to acquire the Israeli AI start-up, Decart, in a deal valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Decart&#8217;s Lucy model, backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/tech-and-start-ups\/article-903804\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a>, can edit live video in real time, according to the company&#8217;s website. It has also developed Oasis, a model that generates simulated environments to train and test robotics and autonomous-driving systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/banking-and-finance\/article-907945\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Decart<\/a> was valued at nearly $4 billion in May, citing PitchBook data.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment outside regular business hours, while Decart did not respond to requests for comment.<br \/>A deal could happen soon if talks do not fall apart or another suitor emerges, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Decart raised $300 million in May in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia joining as a new investor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is in talks to acquire the Israeli AI start-up, Decart, in a deal valued at around $7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[14837,365,308308,6166,363,364,59033,138,868,374,1426,5873,191665,28981,111,139,1042,69,5149,13810,9743,1037,145,416],"class_list":["post-628197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-acquisition","tag-ai","tag-ai-technology-investments","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-business","tag-deals","tag-innovation","tag-investment","tag-israel","tag-israelis","tag-mergers-and-acquisitions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nvidia","tag-nz","tag-robot","tag-robotics","tag-san-francisco","tag-startup","tag-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}