Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

The launch of Anthropic’s new productivity-focused features comes just a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled a series of workplace tools that allow users to collaborate with ChatGPT to do things like visualize company information and create presentations, as both companies compete to turn their products into office suites of sorts to take on Microsoft and Google. 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.

With Claude Meetings, teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. Claude then follows the conversation and gets to work on tasks in real time. As participants talk, 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 in claude.ai.

The work that comes out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, but with this new feature, teams can turn discussions into actions in real time, Anthropic says.

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. At launch, it works with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected to follow.

As for Claude Whiteboards, Anthropic describes the feature as a collaborative board where teams can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines.