Amazon is putting a deal worth about $7 billion on the table. According to informed sources, the e-commerce giant is in talks with the AI startup Decart for an acquisition, with a potential valuation of around $7 billion, equivalent to approximately 46.948 billion yuan at current exchange rates. If negotiations go smoothly and no new bidders emerge, the deal could be finalized soon.

Decart, based in San Francisco, holds a highly valuable skill in today's market: cross-chip compatibility software. It addresses an increasingly troublesome issue in the AI world—trained models are often locked into a specific chip manufacturer's hardware, making it difficult to move them to another chip without significant low-level adjustments. Decart's software acts as a universal adapter for models, allowing them to seamlessly switch and move between different brands of AI chips. As tech giants compete fiercely for computing power, this underlying capability to flexibly schedule workloads across chips is becoming increasingly critical.

Decart isn't the first target of big companies. According to data from research firm PitchBook, it has raised over $400 million, equivalent to approximately 2.683 billion yuan at current exchange rates, from well-known venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Radical Ventures. Just in a funding round in May of this year, its valuation had already approached $4 billion, equivalent to approximately 26.827 billion yuan. In other words, if Amazon acquires it for $7 billion, it would mean a substantial premium on its valuation just a few months ago.

The situation became even more dramatic. According to a report by Bloomberg in August, Anthropic had also sat down with Decart, discussing an acquisition price of around $6 billion, equivalent to approximately 40.241 billion yuan. However, by September, it was reported that Anthropic had voluntarily withdrawn from the negotiations, leaving the hot potato behind. Now, Amazon enters with a higher offer, effectively taking the seat that was abandoned by its competitor. When a company built on selling cloud services and computing power is willing to spend $7 billion on software that helps models "switch chips," it clearly wants more than just a tool—it aims to firmly bind customers who are currently stuck due to chip restrictions into its own ecosystem.