Artificial intelligence is no longer just a chatbot you type questions to. It is now becoming an active office worker.
On Tuesday, Anthropic announced new workplace features, 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 as it aggressively builds an entire suite of office tools.Your new AI colleague on Google MeetWith the new Claude Meetings feature, office teams can invite the AI into a Google Meet video call just like a regular human participant. Instead of just recording the audio to write a summary later, Claude actively listens and gets to work immediately.While the participants discuss their projects, the AI can draft plans, draw timelines on a whiteboard, and answer questions right in the meeting chat.
It can even pull out old business figures and documents from connected work applications so that you do not have to stop your discussion to search for last year's numbers. Once the call is over, all the notes, action items, and materials that Claude created are ready to view on the Claude website.
Anthropic says this helps teams turn their discussions into actual work in real time, rather than waiting until everyone hangs up.To maintain strict privacy, Claude clearly announces itself as a participant in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with outside guests unless an admin authorises it, and it will automatically drop off the call if an unapproved external guest enters.
Currently, Claude Meetings is launching in a beta testing phase for Team and Enterprise subscribers using Google Meet, with plans to support other platforms in the future.Visual boards and smart spreadsheetsAnthropic also launched Claude Whiteboards to help teams brainstorm better. Earlier, people would generate ideas with Claude and then have to copy and paste them elsewhere to share with colleagues.Now, teams can work together on a shared visual workspace where Claude helps map out plans, timelines, and deadlines.
Once the brainstorming is finished, the AI can magically convert the board into a presentation slide deck or a document. This feature also works live during Claude Meetings, building itself as people talk.For handling numbers, the company introduced Claude Sheets.
This allows teams to collaboratively create and edit spreadsheets alongside the AI. You can simply ask Claude to build a hiring budget or a campaign tracker, and it will set up a working spreadsheet.It handles the initial setup but lets teams keep refining the data.
The sheets can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus. Claude makes edits directly in the cells and outlines exactly what it changed so users can track the work.Both Whiteboards and Sheets are currently available in beta for paid users across mobile, web, and desktop.The ultimate office rivalryThe company is also making its Claude Data tool, which was previously known as Claude Dashboards, generally available for all paid users.
This tool links directly to business systems like CRMs and data warehouses.When users ask questions about their company numbers, Claude can reply with interactive dashboards, written data stories, or even narrated videos. To make workflows smoother, Anthropic introduced interactive connectors that let workers open full versions of apps like Adobe, HubSpot, and Atlassian right inside their Claude conversations.This massive launch comes just weeks after OpenAI released its own set of workplace tools for ChatGPT, allowing users to create presentations and visualise company information.Meta is also jumping into the race with its Muse AI agent, which can build quick mini-apps on the fly to help users finish specific tasks.
With these new features, Anthropic is competing fiercely with OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and Google to become the ultimate AI office suite for businesses.- Ends