Zoom’s Anthropic Investment Has Netted the Company $1 Billion

Zoom Communications Inc., the videoconferencing company, has netted about $1 billion on an investment it made in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC in early 2023.

The total value of Zoom’s stake in the rapidly ascendant AI company is worth about $1.27 billion, according to a regulatory filing Friday. That value is primed to increase further as Anthropic nears the completion ofanother funding round as soon as next week.

The holding has been on an exponential climb since early 2023, when Zoom investedin the startup as part of a partnership to use Anthropic’s Claude ...