Anthropic reportedly walks away from talks to acquire Descartes

Anthropic has reportedly walked away from talks to acquire Descartes, according to an exclusive Bloomberg report cited in the available evidence.

Relocation was mentioned as a possible sticking point, including whether Descartes would remain in Tel Aviv rather than move to the United States. The definitive reason the talks ended was not established.

Descartes founder Dean was described as talented, while the company’s live demonstrations of its AI image and video models were praised as unusually impressive. Descartes is expected to continue developing the technology.