Anthropic wants Claude to join your meetings
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Anthropic wants its Claude AI assistant to become a participant in your next work meeting, taking notes, answering questions and even starting on assignments while everyone is still on the call.
Why it matters: Anthropic is hoping to make Claude as indispensable to knowledge workers as it has become for many coders.
Driving the news: Anthropic on Tuesday is announcing a slate of new workplace tools, led by Claude Meetings, which allows the chatbot to join Google Meet calls as a participant.
- Claude Meetings: Beyond taking notes, Claude can answer questions in the meeting chat, pull information from connected work apps and create plans and timelines as participants discuss them. Notes, action items and other work products are available afterward in Claude. The feature is launching in beta for Team and Enterprise customers.
- Claude Whiteboards and Sheets: Two new collaborative tools allow teams to brainstorm with Claude on a shared whiteboard or create and edit spreadsheets with AI assistance. Both are launching in beta for paid subscribers.
- Claude Data: Previously called Claude Dashboards, the tool lets workers query company data and generate dashboards, written reports and narrated videos. It's now broadly available, with some new features still in beta.
- Interactive connectors: Anthropic is expanding its integrations to let users open and work inside full versions of applications from partners including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot without leaving Claude.
Zoom in: Anthropic has been testing Claude Meetings internally for about two months, says Nicholas Lin, the company's product lead for knowledge work. Lin told Axios the AI assistant is now a participant in nearly all of the company's meetings.
- Lin, a former investment banker, said Claude can pull up information participants don't have handy, create slides and other materials as people talk, and track action items for follow-up.
- For now, Claude largely waits to be told what to do, but Lin said Anthropic expects to make it more proactive over time.
The big picture: While Claude has fundamentally changed how developers do their jobs, other knowledge workers haven't experienced the same transformation, Lin acknowledged.
- "We've seen developers work at the speed of thought," Lin said, adding that Anthropic wants knowledge workers "to be able to do the same thing."
