Anthropic has unveiled a set of workplace tools that put its Claude assistant inside live meetings, on shared whiteboards and in spreadsheets, in a direct challenge to the office software of Microsoft and Google.

The headline feature, Claude Meetings, adds Claude to a video call as a visible participant. While people talk, it can draft the plan under discussion, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat and pull figures from connected work apps, such as last year's results. Notes, action items and anything else it creates are then available in claude.ai after the call ends.

Google Meet first, with limits on guests

Claude Meetings is launching in beta for Team and Enterprise customers, and at launch it works with Google Meet only. Anthropic says support for additional services is expected to follow, but has given no date.

Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join a call with external guests unless an administrator authorises it, and it leaves automatically if an unapproved guest joins.

Sheets, Whiteboards and Claude Data

Alongside Meetings, Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on all paid plans, on the web, desktop and mobile. Sheets is a spreadsheet workspace inside Claude, while Whiteboards turns a spoken discussion into a shared board with timelines and deadlines. Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available on all paid plans.

The launch, announced at Anthropic's San Francisco event on 10 November, comes in the same week the company began marketing its initial public offering. Anthropic has not disclosed pricing for the new features.

Sources: TechCrunch and Spectrum Web.