New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is negotiating an acquisition that could give its cloud business control of software designed to make artificial intelligence run across competing chips. The company is in talks to buy Decart for around $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on October 11, citing people familiar with the matter.

The negotiations could produce an agreement soon, but could also collapse or be interrupted by another bidder, according to the Journal's report. No completed acquisition has been announced in the reporting reviewed for this article. Reuters said it could not immediately verify the report.

Decart has two sides to its business: infrastructure software for running AI efficiently, and models that g...