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Claude joins your video call as a working participant
Anthropic announced a suite of new workplace tools on Tuesday that bring Claude into meetings, whiteboards, and spreadsheets, marking the company's most aggressive push yet beyond engineering into white-collar knowledge work.
The launch comes just weeks after OpenAI unveiled similar workplace capabilities and positions Anthropic to compete directly with Google and Microsoft in the AI-assisted productivity space.
The headline feature is Claude Meetings, which lets teams add Claude to a Google Meet video call as a visible participant.
As attendees talk, Claude follows the conversation and gets to work in real time: it can 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 Claude created are available on claude.ai.
"The work that comes out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up," Anthropic said. "But with this new feature, teams can turn discussions into actions in real time."
Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won't join calls with external guests unless authorized by an admin, and will automatically leave if an external guest joins.
Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, initially working with Google Meet, with support for additional platforms expected to follow.
Whiteboards and Sheets for real-time collaboration
The second new tool is Claude Whiteboards, a collaborative board where teams can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines.
Anthropic noted that many people already brainstorm with Claude, but had to copy-paste results elsewhere to share them. Now, a team can work directly with Claude on the same board in real time.
When the brainstorm is done, Claude can turn the board into a doc or a slide deck. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds while people talk.
The feature is available in beta on all paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.
The third tool, Claude Sheets, lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude.
A team can ask it to build a campaign tracker or hiring budget, and Claude generates a working spreadsheet with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus.
Claude makes edits directly in cells alongside the team and outlines each change so users can see what it did. Claude Sheets is available in beta on all paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.
Claude Data goes GA and interactive connectors arrive
Alongside these three tools, Anthropic also announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards when it was introduced in beta in October, is now generally available to all paid plans.
The feature connects Claude to systems companies use to keep their numbers, such as data warehouses or CRMs. Users can ask questions, and Claude responds with dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos.
Anthropic also introduced new interactive connectors that open full versions of apps from partners like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot inside Claude.
The company launched the Model Context Protocol about two years ago, and its marketplace of tools has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options.
Now, the company is making those connections deeper so users don't have to switch tabs to access the services they use every day, according to Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic.
For example, users can access a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker inside Claude itself.
The race for the AI-powered office
The launch positions Anthropic directly against Google and OpenAI in the AI office tools race. Google's Gemini can already join meetings and take live notes, and OpenAI's ChatGPT has a "record" feature for similar functionality.
At OpenAI's DevDay last month, the company leaned heavily into integrated apps and connectors for its new Dots agents. Anthropic is following in their footsteps while trying to gain new ground with its own spin on real-time collaboration.
The timing is no coincidence. Anthropic is under pressure to generate more revenue and drive product engagement ahead of its IPO, which is slated to potentially make the most valuable public debut of all time.
The new tools are some of the company's first native products for non-technical knowledge workers, expanding beyond the developer-focused Claude Code that has defined much of its growth this year.
Nicholas Lin said that while Claude Cowork was aimed at "the technical parts of our non-technical audience," the company now wants to "expand that reach toward everybody else."
Meta is also joining the competition with its Muse AI agent, which can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks.
As the three AI labs race to turn their chatbots into full-fledged productivity platforms, the office suite has become the new battleground for AI adoption among knowledge workers.
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