Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which allows Claude to join video calls to start working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.
The launch of Anthropic’s new productivity-focused features comes just weeks after OpenAI unveiled a series of workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT to do things like view business information and create presentations, as the two companies compete to turn their products into office suites to take on Microsoft and Google. Meta also joins the competition with its Muse AI agent, which can create mini-apps on the fly to help users accomplish specific tasks.
With Claude Meetings, teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. Claude then follows the conversation and gets to work on the tasks in real time. While participants speak, he can write the plan under discussion, draw up a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year’s numbers. After the call, meeting notes, action items, and other documents created by Claude are available at claude.ai.
The work resulting from a meeting typically begins after everyone has hung up, but with this new feature, teams can turn discussions into actions in real time, Anthropic says.
Claude identifies himself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with external guests unless authorized by an administrator, and will automatically leave if an external guest joins.
Claude Meetings is launched in beta version on the Team and Enterprise plans. At launch, it works with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected to follow.
As for Claude Whiteboards, Anthropic describes the feature as a collaborative board where teams can discuss a plan and ask Claude to turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines.
The company notes that many people are already brainstorming with Claude, but to share their results with others, they would have to copy and paste them elsewhere. Now, a team can work directly with Claude on the same board in real time.
Once the brainstorming is finished, Claude can transform the table into a document or slideshow. Additionally, whiteboards also work in Claude Meetings, so the board builds as people speak, Anthropic explains.
Claude Whiteboards is available in beta on paid plans, on the web, on desktop and on mobile.
The company also launched Claude Sheets, which allows teams to create and edit spreadsheets collaboratively with Claude. A team can ask him to create a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and Claude will then generate a working spreadsheet.
Anthropic says Claude handles the initial setup of trackers and budgets, while allowing teams to continue refining and updating the same spreadsheet. Each worksheet can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-down menus. Claude also makes changes directly to cells alongside the team and describes each change so users can see what she’s done.
Claude Sheets is available in beta on paid plans, on web, computer and mobile.
Anthropic also announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. The feature connects Claude to the systems businesses use to store their numbers, like a data warehouse or CRM. Users can ask questions and Claude responds with dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos.
Additionally, the company announced interactive connectors that open the full version of apps like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot in Claude. Anthropic notes that teams can now open these apps directly alongside their Claude conversations and ask Assistant to work on them, bringing existing workflows together into the same workspace.
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