qwant news | Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
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Decart, an AI research lab building real‑time video and world‑model technology, announced a $300 million funding round led by Radical Ventures that pushes its total capital raised above $450 million. New investors include Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, Toyota and eBay Ventures, while angels such as Andrej Karpathy, former Disney chief Michael Eisner and the Nintendo family also joined the cap table. The company markets three core products: the Decart Optimization Stack (DOS), an inference and training platform that runs on Nvidia GPUs, Google TPUs and Amazon Trainium delivering 1,600 tokens per second and full‑HD video at up to 100 fps; Lucy, a sub‑30‑ms world‑model powering virtual try‑on, live‑streaming and dynamic in‑video advertising; and Oasis, a physical‑AI stack aimed at robotics and autonomous‑system customers. Decart highlighted a partnership with Amazon’s Annapurna Labs, noting that its Lucy 2 model runs on Trainium with over 80 % FLOPS utilisation. CEO Dean Leitersdorf argues that world models are key to moving AI from virtual text‑only contexts into the physical world, a thesis supported by the company’s rapid funding history—from a $21 million seed in early 2024 to a $3.1 billion valuation in 2025. The next milestones are DOS 2.0, Lucy 2.5 and Oasis 3, slated for release in the coming weeks.
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