US AI firm Anthropic launches Claude Meetings and other tools to turn live discussions into work plans
Anthropic released beta versions of Claude Meetings, Whiteboards, and Sheets, allowing AI to draft plans, draw charts, and generate spreadsheets in real time during video calls.
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced three new productivity features on Tuesday: Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Sheets. These tools aim to transform team discussions directly into actionable work outputs, further competing with Microsoft and Google's office suites.
Claude Meetings allows users to add Claude as a visible participant in video calls. As participants talk, Claude can follow the conversation in real time, draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures. After the call, the meeting notes, action items, and other materials created by Claude are available in claude.ai. The feature is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, initially supporting Google Meet.
Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board where teams can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. When the brainstorm is done, Claude can convert the board into a doc or a slide deck. This feature is also available in beta on paid plans, on web, desktop, and mobile.
Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude. Users can ask it to build a campaign tracker or hiring budget, and Claude will generate a working spreadsheet, handling the initial setup while allowing teams to continue refining it. Each spreadsheet supports multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus, and Claude makes edits directly in cells alongside the team, outlining each change. This feature is also available in beta on paid plans, on web, desktop, and mobile.