Anthropic Wants Claude in the Room Before the Meeting Ends
Anthropic Wants Claude in the Room Before the Meeting Ends
Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled a workplace-software push built around Claude Meetings, a beta feature that lets its AI assistant join Google Meet calls as a visible participant. The premise is straightforward: instead of waiting for a meeting to end before someone turns discussion into follow-up work, Claude begins drafting plans, timelines and action items while people are still talking.
The company says Claude can answer questions in the meeting chat, retrieve information from connected work applications and preserve its notes and outputs in Claude after the call. It identifies itself in the meeting and posts a chat notice; administrators must authorize its use on calls involving external guests, and the assistant will leave if such a guest joins.
Anthropic has already tested the model internally for roughly two months. Nicholas Lin, its product lead for knowledge work, told Axios that Claude now participates in nearly all company meetings, where it can surface missing information, build slides and track follow-up. For now, it mostly waits for instructions, though Anthropic expects it to become more proactive. “We’ve seen developers work at the speed of thought,” Lin said. The company wants knowledge workers “to be able to do the same thing.”
The launch also extends beyond video calls. Claude Whiteboards, available in beta to paid users, turns a group brainstorm into a shared visual workspace, with the option to convert the result into a document or slide deck. Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets collaboratively, including formulas, formatting and dropdown menus, while showing users the changes Claude makes.
Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, is now generally available for querying corporate systems and producing dashboards, reports or narrated videos. Interactive connectors also bring full versions of Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot applications into Claude.
The timing underscores a wider contest. OpenAI recently rolled out workplace collaboration tools, while Meta is promoting an agent that can build task-specific mini-apps. Anthropic’s wager is that the decisive AI office assistant will not merely summarize work after the fact—it will help produce it as the conversation unfolds.
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