Anthropic's Claude Now Joins Video Calls and Works Across 9,000 Apps

Anthropic rolled out a slate of workplace features on Tuesday that let its AI assistant Claude join video calls as an active participant — and its most useful function, the company argues, happens before the call ends.

Paying teams can now add Claude to a video call, where the AI follows the conversation and starts working on tasks as they come up, according to Anthropic's announcement reported by Business Insider staff reporter Aaron Mok. When the call ends, notes, action items and everything Claude produced are waiting in the chatbot. Anyone on the invite can share those materials with colleagues who missed the call.

The new release also gives Claude the ability to build spreadsheets with coworkers and operate inside apps like Slack. Anthropic says the tools work across 9,000 apps — a reach that positions Claude less as a chatbot and more as infrastructure threaded through a company's existing software stack. The claim covers app integrations broadly; Anthropic has not broken out which of those 9,000 connections carry the deepest functionality.

What can Claude Meetings actually do?

The headline feature is proactive task completion. On a sales planning call, for example, Claude could pull last year's numbers from a connected app and draft a plan with goals, quotas and revenue targets while the team is still talking, per the report. Everyone on the call can then weigh in on the first draft before they hang up.

That compression matters in practical terms. Work that traditionally waited for the post-call window — data pulls, first drafts, follow-up notes — starts while the meeting is still live. The risk is equally clear: a first draft generated mid-conversation only helps if the underlying data and framing are right, and Anthropic's demo scenarios do not address what happens when they are not.

Claude can also use Whiteboards during a call. The feature turns a weekly brainstorm session into a plan that spells out who owns each task and when it is due. Teams can refine the board together in real time and convert it into a document or a slide deck — one brainstorm, in other words, now flows directly into an assignable artifact rather than a photo of a sticky-note wall.

Where does this fit in Anthropic's product arc?

The updates build on Anthropic's broader push to get people to hand off more of their day-to-day work to AI. In January, the company introduced Claude Cowork for teams, a tool designed to automate tasks like organizing files. Tuesday's release adds agentic capabilities that embed into a company's tools and complete multi-step workflows on their own.

The trajectory is consistent: from single-task automation in January to embedded, multi-step agency in this release. Each step asks customers to trust Claude with a larger share of the work — and with access to more of the systems where that work lives.

Who benefits first?

For founders running lean teams, the pitch is concrete: less time chasing down numbers or setting up spreadsheets, more time landing deals. That framing targets the segment where labor scarcity bites hardest — small teams that cannot hire their way out of administrative load.

The features are available to teams that pay for Claude, which means the gains arrive through a subscription rather than headcount. Whether the time saved holds up outside curated sales-planning scenarios is the question Anthropic's enterprise customers will now test.

Anthropic has staked the next phase of its workplace ambitions on a simple proposition: the AI should not just sit in the meeting, it should finish the meeting's work before everyone leaves the room.