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Anthropic launches Claude Meetings for workplace collaboration
Anthropic releases Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft in workplace productivity tools.
In brief
Anthropic releases Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft in workplace productivity tools. Anthropic announced Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets on Tuesday to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks in real time, joining OpenAI and Meta in competing with Microsoft…
Anthropic launches three new workplace features
Anthropic announced Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets on Tuesday. The features bring Claude into video calls and collaborative workspaces to help teams work on tasks in real time.
Claude Meetings works inside video calls
Teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. Claude follows the conversation and drafts plans, maps timelines, answers questions in chat, and accesses work apps to retrieve information while the call…
Claude Meetings launches in beta
Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. At launch it works with Google Meet, with support for additional platforms expected to follow.
Claude Whiteboards turns brainstorms into visuals
Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board where teams brainstorm with Claude, which turns ideas into organized visual workspaces with timelines and deadlines. When done, Claude can convert the board into a document or slide deck.
Claude Sheets creates and edits spreadsheets
Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude.Teams can ask Claude to build a campaign tracker or hiring budget, and it generates a working spreadsheet with tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus.
Claude Data now generally available
Anthropic announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. The feature connects Claude to company data systems like data warehouses or CRMs to answer questions with dashboards and data stories.
Interactive connectors bring apps into Claude
Anthropic announced interactive connectors that open full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude. Teams can now open these apps alongside Claude conversations and ask the assistant to work within them.
Anthropic competes with OpenAI and Meta
The launch comes weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools for ChatGPT and Meta launched its Muse AI agent. Both companies are competing to turn their products into office suites to take on Microsoft and Google.
The big picture
Anthropic announced Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets on Tuesday to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks in real time, joining OpenAI and Meta in competing with Microsoft and Google for office suite dominance.
