OpenAI vs Zoom

OpenAI — Foundation Models · Private · $852B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Zoom — Application · Public · $28.7B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

ChatGPT Gov and Zoom Sheets do comparable work on document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

10 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

10 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, data analysis, document extraction and 7 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Zoom: $28.7B market cap, against OpenAI's $852B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldOpenAIZoom
Size$852B valuation$28.7B mkt cap different basis
Employees4,5007,438 Zoom has 65% more
Founded20152011 4 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Model APIAI agent, API service, Application, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Jose, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 10

Agent orchestrationData analysisDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityPresentation generationSpeech to textSummarizationText generationText to speechWorkflow automation

Not verified for Zoom · 7

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewData securityImage generationThreat detection and responseSearch answers

Recorded for OpenAI. Zoom’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for OpenAI · 7

Customer supportHR and recruitingMeeting notesKnowledge retrievalSales outreachTranslationVoice agent

Recorded for Zoom. OpenAI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

OpenAI

Application

ChatGPTApplication

Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.

ChatGPT AtlasApplication

OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.

ChatGPT GovApplication

A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.

ChatGPT for ExcelApplication

ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.

ChatGPT for PowerPointApplication

ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.

ChatGPT for WordApplication

ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.

SoraApplication

OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.

AI agent

CodexAI agent

Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.

Zoom

Application

Bonsai by ZoomApplication

All-in-one client, project and financial management platform with AI (ZoomMate) turning Zoom calls into CRM updates, project launches and task creation.

BrightHireApplication

Interview intelligence for hiring teams: AI copilots that plan and record interviews and generate notes, plus BrightHire Screen, an always-on AI interviewer sold on its own or bundled with the interview-intelligence platform.

Zoom AI Expert AssistApplication

AI agent-assist layer for contact centre staff providing real-time guidance, contextual insights and automation of backend CRM and billing tasks with supervisor guardrails.

Zoom AI Productivity SuiteApplication

A bundled set of AI-native productivity apps - Slides, Sheets, Paper and Canvas - sold as a standalone subscription or as an add-on to Zoom Workplace licences.

Zoom CX InsightsApplication

Agentic analytics layer for contact centres that answers natural-language questions across workforce management, quality management, virtual agent and interaction data without dashboards.

Zoom CanvasApplication

Collaborative document and wiki workspace, formerly Zoom Docs, that turns team conversations into documents, data tables and forms with AI drafting and summarization.

Zoom My NotesApplication

AI note-taking product that captures and summarizes meetings and conversations, sold as its own tier and also included in Workplace and ZoomMate plans.

Zoom PaperApplication

AI word processor that drafts documents from conversation context, restructures content, adjusts tone and translates into 17 languages, preserving Word and Google Docs formatting.

Zoom Quality ManagementApplication

Quality-management layer of Zoom Contact Center that uses AI to score every customer interaction automatically instead of a sampled few, reads sentiment through speech analytics, and lets supervisors question the results in plain language through Ask QM.

Zoom Revenue AcceleratorApplication

Conversation-intelligence platform that transcribes and analyses sales calls to surface buying signals and objections, with real-time coaching, deal tracking and CRM sync.

Zoom SheetsApplication

AI spreadsheet that answers natural-language questions over data, generates formulas from plain language, and imports structure from PDFs, enterprise apps and meeting transcripts.

Zoom SlidesApplication

AI presentation tool that turns meeting discussions, transcripts or text prompts into on-brand decks, with co-editing and .pptx export.

Zoom Workforce ManagementApplication

Staffing and scheduling layer of Zoom Contact Center that uses AI to forecast demand from historical patterns across voice, chat, email and work items, generates schedules that balance service level against cost, and re-forecasts during the day as volume shifts.

AI agent

Zoom Virtual AgentAI agent

Conversational AI agent for voice and digital channels that resolves customer requests through self-service, AI receptionist and internal IT helpdesk use cases.

ZoomMateAI agent

Agentic AI teammate that acts on meeting and workday context -- searching across Zoom and connected apps (Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Google, Microsoft), automating follow-up tasks, and drafting documents, slides and reports.

No counterpart

OpenAI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Zoom yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

OpenAI DaybreakAgent platform

OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.

OpenAI FrontierAgent platform

Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.

Model API

OpenAI APIModel API

Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.

Zoom sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenAI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Zoom Scribe APIAPI service

Enterprise speech-to-text API with batch, fast-synchronous and live transcription modes for meetings, calls and media files, sold per hour of audio processed.

Zoom Summarizer APIAPI service

Summarization API that turns documents, transcripts and text into structured summaries, sold per million characters processed.

Zoom Translator APIAPI service

Text translation API across multiple languages for developers building on Zoom's AI services, sold per million characters processed.

Platform

Zoom AI On-PremPlatform

Zoom's AI stack running inside a customer's own on-premises or private-cloud environment on Zoom Node, providing local ASR, transcription and agentic search without data leaving the customer's infrastructure.