Anthropic launches office tools ahead of IPO, challenges Microsoft

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Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets for workplace users. The expansion intensifies its AI office-suite rivalry with Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Meta.

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a chatbot you type questions to. It is now becoming an active office worker. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced new workplace features, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking.

The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets as it aggressively builds an entire suite of office tools.

With the new Claude Meetings feature, office teams can invite the AI into a Google Meet video call just like a regular human participant. Instead of just recording the audio to write a summary later, Claude actively listens and gets to work immediately.

While the participants discuss their projects, the AI can draft plans, draw timelines on a whiteboard, and answer questions right in the meeting chat. It can even pull out old business figures and documents from connected work applications so that you do not have to stop your discussion to search for last year's numbers.

Once the call is over, all the notes, action items, and materials that Claude created are ready to view on the Claude website. Anthropic says this helps teams turn their discussions into actual work in real time, rather than waiting until everyone hangs up.

To maintain strict privacy, Claude clearly announces itself as a participant in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with outside guests unless an admin authorises it, and it will automatically drop off the call if an unapproved external guest enters.

Anthropic also launched Claude Whiteboards to help teams brainstorm better. Earlier, people would generate ideas with Claude and then have to copy and paste them elsewhere to share with colleagues.

Now, teams can work together on a shared visual workspace where Claude helps map out plans, timelines, and deadlines. Once the brainstorming is finished, the AI can magically convert the board into a presentation slide deck or a document.

For handling numbers, the company introduced Claude…

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