[Zoom's Early Investment in Anthropic Has Yielded Over $1 Billion in Returns] According to a report by Jinse Finance on May 25, recent regulatory filings submitted by Zoom reveal that the company's early investment in AI startup Anthropic has generated over $1 billion in financial returns. In May 2023, Zoom, through its venture capital arm Zoom Ventures, invested approximately $51 million. The current market value of this initial investment has now surged to nearly $1.3 billion. The strategic purpose of this investment at the time was to integrate Anthropic's Claude large language model into Zoom's federated AI architecture. With Anthropic potentially completing a new round of financing as early as this week, the valuation of Zoom's minority stake is expected to rise further.