Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets

Anthropic added three workplace tools on Tuesday, arriving weeks after OpenAI rolled out its own set of office-productivity features and as Meta pushes a competing agent, Muse, that builds mini-apps on the fly — all part of a broader race among AI companies to displace pieces of the Microsoft and Google office suites.

Claude Meetings lets teams add Claude to a video call as a visible participant that follows the conversation and starts working while people are still talking — drafting a plan, mapping a timeline on a whiteboard, answering chat questions, or pulling figures from connected work apps. After the call, the notes, action items and other materials Claude produced are available on claude.ai. Claude identifies itself in the meeting and posts a notice in the chat; it won’t join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it automatically leaves if an external guest joins. The feature is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, launching with Google Meet support, with other platforms expected to follow.

Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared board where they can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines, which can then become a document or slide deck; it also works inside Claude Meetings, so a board builds as people talk. It’s in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile.

Claude Sheets lets teams build and edit spreadsheets collaboratively with Claude, which Anthropic says can set up a campaign tracker or hiring budget, support multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdowns, and make cell-level edits alongside the team while logging what it changed. It’s also in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile. Anthropic separately said Claude Data, previously Claude Dashboards, is now generally available, and announced interactive connectors that open full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude conversations.

Why it matters

The launch pushes Claude further into daily office workflows just as OpenAI and Meta chase the same ground, raising the stakes in a contest over who becomes the default AI layer sitting on top of Microsoft’s and Google’s productivity suites.