Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup

In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation, it’s being reported that Anthropic might soon buy the AI lab Decart for roughly $6 billion. Decart doesn’t promote itself via the sort of drab, enterprise-focused coding and productivity tools you may associate with the home of Claude Code. Anthropic has never released an image generator, let alone a Sora-style video generator. Instead, it releases austere, hand-wringing blog posts, and plugins that attempt to make paralegals obsolete. So why would Anthropic hypothetically be interested in buying this? You have to understand what’s under the hood. Decart promotes itself as the creator of Lucy, Oasis, and DOS (No, not that DOS. Go take your Lipitor if you thought that). Lucy is a video model that accomplishes what you might call “deepfake passes” in real-time, changing faces and other details in high-quality live video. Oasis is marketed as an interactive world model, which you might recall seeing way back in 2024 when it generated what was effectively a playable version of Minecraft from image inputs. DOS is the engine that