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Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m.
TL;DR
- Decart, an AI research lab, raised $300 million in new funding led by Radical Ventures.
- The company's total funding now exceeds $450 million, with new investors including Nvidia and Adobe Ventures.
- Notable angels like Andrej Karpathy and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner are involved.
- Decart offers products like DOS (Decart Optimization Stack), Lucy (world model for immersive experiences), and Oasis (for physical AI).
- The company has a partnership with Amazon, deploying its models on AWS Trainium chips.
- Decart's focus is on real-time, low-latency inference, particularly for video and physical world applications.