Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings to Let Its AI Join Video Calls

Anthropic launched Claude Meetings on Tuesday, a feature that lets its AI chatbot join video calls as a visible participant and turn what is discussed into plans, timelines and tasks in real time.

Once added to a call, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, build out a timeline on a shared whiteboard, answer questions posted in the meeting chat and pull information from connected work apps, such as the previous year's figures, TechCrunch reported. After the call ends, the notes and action items it produced are saved and accessible on claude.ai.

Anthropic said Claude will disclose its presence by identifying itself as a meeting participant and posting a notice in the meeting chat. The company said Claude will not join calls with external guests unless a company administrator has authorized it, and will automatically leave if an external guest joins partway through.

Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Anthropic's Team and Enterprise subscription plans. At launch, it works only with Google Meet; Anthropic said support for additional meeting platforms is expected to follow.

Anthropic paired the launch with three other workplace tools. Claude Whiteboards lets a team talk through a plan on a shared board that Claude turns into timelines and deadlines, and can convert into a document or slide deck; it also runs inside Claude Meetings, so the board fills in as people talk. Claude Sheets lets teams build and edit spreadsheets, such as a campaign tracker or hiring budget, with Claude editing cells directly alongside the team. Both are in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile.

Claude Data, a tool previously called Claude Dashboards that connects the AI to a company's data warehouse or customer relationship software, is now generally available rather than in beta. Anthropic said the tool can respond to questions with dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos. The company also introduced interactive connectors that open full versions of apps including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside a Claude conversation, letting users work inside those apps directly rather than relying on data summarized out of them. The connectors arrived a day after Adobe put its own AI agents directly inside Photoshop and Premiere.

The launch follows similar moves by Anthropic's rivals. OpenAI unveiled workplace tools in late September that let ChatGPT users visualize company data and build presentations, and Meta has added a "Spaces" feature that lets its Muse AI agent build task-specific mini-apps. TechCrunch described the moves as part of a broader contest among AI labs to turn their chatbots into office suites that compete directly with Microsoft and Google.

Claude Sheets can handle spreadsheets with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus, and Anthropic said the AI outlines each change it makes as it edits a document alongside a team. Anthropic did not disclose pricing for Claude Meetings, Whiteboards or Sheets beyond their inclusion in paid subscription tiers, and did not say when the beta features might reach its consumer Pro plan or additional video platforms.