Eric Schmidt reportedly holds about 1% stake in Anthropic

Bloomberg reports that Schmidt joined Anthropic's Series A in 2021, investing tens of millions of dollars when the company was valued at $461 million (PitchBook data), yielding a stake of about 1%. Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei holds about 2%. Anthropic is widely expected to go public by the end of this year, with some high-end market valuations reaching as much as $2 trillion; at that valuation, Schmidt's stake could add roughly $20 billion to his $57.5 billion fortune. Since stepping down as Google CEO in 2011, Schmidt has kept investing in tech companies through entities including Tomorrow Ventures, Innovation Endeavors Management, and family office Hillspire; his other AI investments include Mistral, General Intuition, and Reflection AI. For developers using the Claude API, teams buying Anthropic enterprise services, and investors watching the company's IPO, this news reflects shareholder structure and potential valuation only; it does not involve model versions, API capabilities, or price changes.