Anthropic expands its AI-powered office suite with tools for everyday work

New tools for knowledge workers

Anthropic announced Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The products are designed for people who spend time in meetings, brainstorming and analyzing metrics.

Claude can join meetings and take notes, help organize ideas on a shared whiteboard, and work on spreadsheets with employees. The tools can also transform a presentation into a one-minute explainer video. They join Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion.

Availability and integrations

Meetings, Sheets and Whiteboards are available in beta. Sheets and Whiteboards are included in all paid plans, while Meetings is available to Teams and Enterprise subscribers. Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards in its beta launch in October, is now generally available to all paid plans.

A push beyond developers

The new products are among Anthropic’s first native offerings for non-technical knowledge workers. Lin described Claude Cowork as a tool for the technical parts of Anthropic’s non-technical audience.

Competition and business pressure

Other AI companies already offer overlapping features. Google’s Gemini can join meetings and take live notes, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT can do so in some cases through its record feature. Google also supports spreadsheet creation and interactive connectors, and OpenAI has emphasized integrated apps and connectors for its Dots agents.

Anthropic is entering a competitive AI agent market while facing pressure to increase revenue and product engagement ahead of a potential IPO. The company’s public debut could be the most valuable of all time, but investors are also looking for a credible path to profit.