Anthropic Puts Claude Inside Video Calls With Meetings Beta

Anthropic launched Claude Meetings on Tuesday, a beta feature that puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant that starts working on tasks while the meeting is still running. The company also rolled out Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and general availability for Claude Data.

The move lands just weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT to visualize company information and create presentations. Both companies are racing to turn their assistants into office suites of sorts and take on Microsoft and Google. Meta is joining too, with its Muse AI agent that builds mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks.

What does Claude Meetings actually change?

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

Here's what Claude does on a call:

• Follows the conversation and starts on tasks in real time
• Drafts the plan being discussed while participants talk
• Maps out a timeline on a whiteboard
• Answers questions in the meeting chat
• Pulls figures from connected work apps, such as last year's numbers

After the call, the meeting notes, action items, and other materials Claude created sit in claude.ai, ready to use.

Privacy gets explicit handling. Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won't join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it automatically leaves if an external guest joins mid-call. Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, with Google Meet support at launch and additional platforms expected to follow.

Whiteboards: brainstorming without the copy-paste

Anthropic frames Claude Whiteboards as the fix for a workflow problem many users already have. Many people brainstorm with Claude, the company notes, but to share results with others they would have to copy-paste them somewhere else. Now a team can work with Claude directly on the same board in real time.

When the brainstorm ends, Claude converts the board into a doc or a slide deck. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds itself while people talk. The feature is available in beta on paid plans, on web, desktop, and mobile.

Sheets: a spreadsheet that builds itself

Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude. Ask it to build a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and it generates a working spreadsheet. Claude handles the initial setup while the team keeps refining and updating the same file.

Each spreadsheet supports multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus. Claude edits cells directly alongside the team and outlines each change, so users can see exactly what it did. Like Whiteboards, Sheets is in beta on paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.

Claude Data goes GA, apps open inside Claude

Anthropic also announced that Claude Data — formerly Claude Dashboards — is now generally available. It connects Claude to the systems where companies keep their numbers, like a data warehouse or CRM. Users ask questions and get back dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos.

The company rounded out the launch with interactive connectors that open the full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot inside Claude. Teams can run these apps directly alongside their Claude conversations and ask the assistant to work within them, effectively pulling existing workflows into a single workspace.

For practitioners, the practical question is where this leaves their tool stack. If Claude can join the call, draft the plan, build the tracker, and query the warehouse, the boundary between meeting, document, and app starts to blur — and Anthropic is betting that the winner of the office-suite war will be whoever collapses those steps first.