Decart founders (promo pic)
Israeli startup Decart offers an efficiency-focused AI research lab. The firm came out of stealth with a $21 million Seed Round of funding led by Sequoia Capital and the release of its Oasis platform.
Decart says Oasis is the first playable, real-time, open-world AI model — it’s an interactive video game, but generated end-to-end by a transformer on a frame-by-frame basis. Oasis takes in user keyboard and mouse input and generates real-time gameplay, internally simulating physics, game rules, and graphics. The model learned to allow users to move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more, all by watching gameplay directly. We view Oasis as the first step in our research towards foundational models that simulate more complex interactive worlds, thereby replacing the classic game engine for a future driven by AI.
Decart’s efficient AI platform revolutionizes the training and inference of large-scale generative models, offering a significant performance boost. This advanced technology enables Decart to train powerful foundational generative interactive models and make them accessible to all users in real time.
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The company was found in 2023 by 2023 by CEO Dean Leitersdorf and CPO Moshe Shalev, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces’ vaunted cyber-intelligence Unit 8200.
The rapid advancement of AI is poised to revolutionize virtual experiences, with every pixel potentially generated by AI. However, the exorbitant costs of training and deploying advanced AI models have limited access to this technology, primarily confining it to tech giants and large corporations. The staggering cost of training models like Google’s Gemini Ultra and the projected annual expenditure on AI model training highlight the urgent need for a more efficient and affordable AI infrastructure. This infrastructure will unlock the potential of AI to reshape our virtual experiences and make them more personalized, immersive, and interactive.
“Decart’s journey has been unconventional from the outset-and we are executing a game-changing platform that maximizes AI training efficiency for organizations,” said Dean Leitersdorf, Co-Founder and CEO of Decart. “With this new funding, we take our vision to the next level – doubling down on our business momentum and technical expertise to usher in a new era of generative experiences and unlock possibilities that were once only imagined.”
