Anthropic announced Claude Meetings on Tuesday, a feature that brings its AI assistant into video calls as a visible participant to work on tasks while teams talk. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards for collaborative planning.
With Claude Meetings, teams can add Claude to a video call where it follows the conversation and performs tasks in real time. According to Anthropic, Claude can draft plans being discussed, create timelines on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information such as past figures. Meeting notes, action items and materials Claude creates are available in claude.ai after the call ends.
Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. The assistant won’t join calls with external guests unless authorized by an admin, and will automatically leave if an external guest joins. Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet at launch, with support for additional platforms expected later.
Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board where teams can work with Claude to turn discussions into organized visual workspaces with timelines and deadlines. According to Anthropic, teams can brainstorm directly with Claude on the same board in real time, and Claude can convert the board into a document or slide deck when finished. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, building the board while participants talk.
The launch follows OpenAI’s recent introduction of workplace collaboration tools and comes as multiple companies compete to expand AI assistants into office productivity software.