Anthropic launches Claude Meetings for real-time meeting notes and tasks

In short: Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a new feature that lets its AI assistant join video calls and turn what people say into plans and tasks while the meeting is still happening.

What happened

Anthropic announced several new workplace features, led by Claude Meetings. Teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. As people talk, Claude can write up the plan being discussed, answer questions in the meeting chat, and pull information from connected work apps, like last year’s sales numbers.

Claude can also build a timeline on a whiteboard during the call, so the group can see dates and deadlines take shape in real time. After the meeting ends, the notes, action items, and other materials Claude created stay available in Anthropic’s Claude website, claude.ai.

Anthropic says Claude identifies itself in the call and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with outside guests unless an administrator approves it, and it will automatically leave if an outside guest joins.

Claude Meetings is launching in beta for Team and Enterprise plans. At launch, it works with Google Meet, and Anthropic says support for more plans is expected later.

Anthropic also launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets. Whiteboards is a shared planning space where Claude can organize ideas into a visual layout with timelines and deadlines, then turn the board into a document or slide deck. Sheets lets teams ask Claude to create a spreadsheet, like a hiring budget or campaign tracker, and then edit it together, with Claude making changes directly in the cells and showing what it changed.

Why it matters

Many teams spend as much time after a meeting figuring out what to do as they do talking in the meeting. Tools like Claude Meetings aim to act like a live note-taker and project helper (like having someone in the room turning conversation into a checklist), which could reduce missed tasks and save time.

Source: TechCrunch AI