Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings to Turn Workplace Discussions into Plans and Tasks

Claude Moves Into Video Calls

Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls so it can begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

A Crowded Productivity Race in 2026

The launch of Anthropic's productivity-focused features comes just a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled a series of workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT to visualize company information and create presentations. The two companies are competing to turn their products into office suites of sorts to take on Microsoft and Google. Meta is also joining the competition with its Muse AI agent, which can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks.

How Claude Meetings Works

With Claude Meetings, teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. Claude follows the conversation and gets to work on tasks in real time. As participants talk, it can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures. After the call, the meeting notes, action items, and other materials Claude created are available in claude.ai.

The work that comes out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, but with this new feature, teams can turn discussions into actions in real time, Anthropic says.

Privacy and Guardrails

Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won't join calls with external guests unless authorized by an admin, and it will automatically leave if an external guest joins.

Availability

Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. At launch, it works with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected to follow.

Claude Whiteboards

Anthropic describes Claude Whiteboards as a collaborative board where teams can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines.

The company notes that many people already brainstorm with Claude, but to share their results with others they previously had to copy-paste them somewhere else. Now, a team can work directly with Claude on the same board in real time.

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