Anthropic Unveils Claude Tools That Join Meetings as Visible Participants

Anthropic introduced Claude Meetings, Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, expanding Claude from a coding assistant into a suite for collaborative office work. In Google Meet, Claude can join as a visible participant, retrieve information from connected apps, and draft plans, timelines and action items during discussions; Meetings is initially in beta for Team and Enterprise customers, with safeguards for calls involving external guests. Sheets supports shared spreadsheets, Whiteboards collaborative visual planning, and Data interactive dashboards. Anthropic also added connectors that let Claude work with partner apps under users’ permissions. The launch intensifies competition with Microsoft, Google and OpenAI as Anthropic seeks to grow its corporate business ahead of a planned IPO.