Anthropic’s Claude Meetings beta joins Google Meet calls to answer questions, draft plans and create timelines in real time.
Anthropic is adding Claude to Google Meet so the AI assistant can start work before a meeting ends. The new feature, Claude Meetings, joins calls as a visible participant and follows discussion. It can answer questions in chat, draft plans and build timelines while people talk. The beta brings Anthropic into workplace AI beyond meeting transcripts and summaries.
How Claude Meetings works during live calls
Teams can invite Claude into a Google Meet call as they would another participant. The assistant follows the discussion and responds to requests in the meeting chat. As people talk through an idea, it can draft a plan or create a timeline. The aim is to produce useful work before attendees leave the call.
Claude can also draw on connected work apps to find information participants need. That could include earlier figures or company material relevant to a decision. The assistant can turn the discussion into action items and notes. Those materials remain available in claude.ai after the meeting ends.
Anthropic described teams sharing an app idea or asking to see company figures in a new way. Claude can work with them during the call. A worker might pull last year’s numbers from a connected source while colleagues discuss what they mean. This shifts the meeting beyond simply storing what participants said.
Google Meet beta starts with business customers
Claude Meetings is launching in beta for Anthropic’s Team and Enterprise customers. Google Meet is the first supported video platform. Anthropic says it plans to add other meeting platforms, but has not announced a schedule. The initial release therefore targets organizations already paying for Claude’s workplace plans.
The product’s live role distinguishes it from tools focused mainly on recording or summarizing calls. Claude can respond to questions and prepare follow-up work while the discussion continues. It can also help shape a timeline as participants talk through a project. Anthropic is pitching the feature as an assistant inside the meeting, rather than a transcript service used afterward.
Claude Meetings makes its presence visible
Claude appears as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. That design makes its presence visible to people on the call. Anthropic says an administrator must authorize Claude to stay if external guests join. Without that authorization, Claude leaves when an outside guest enters.
The controls matter because meetings can include confidential business discussions. However, the available reports do not explain every data-retention or privacy setting. Companies will need to review Anthropic’s own plan controls before enabling the feature. The beta’s guest rule is a specific safeguard, not a substitute for checking wider policies.
Whiteboards and Sheets extend Anthropic’s workplace push
Claude Meetings arrives alongside other workplace tools. Claude Whiteboards lets teams build a shared visual plan, including timelines and deadlines. The board can grow alongside a meeting discussion, and teams can later turn it into a document or slide deck. Whiteboards is also in beta for paid Claude plans.
Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets with the assistant. Anthropic also renamed Claude Dashboards to Claude Data and made that product generally available. The tools connect Claude to collaborative documents, company data and meeting work. Together, they show Anthropic’s effort to make Claude useful across office tasks, not only coding.
Claude Meetings still depends on user direction
For now, Claude does not independently take over a meeting or decide what work matters. Anthropic product lead Nicholas Lin told Axios that the assistant largely waits to be told what to do. He said the company expects it to become more proactive over time. That makes the current version closer to a live collaborator than an autonomous employee.
Lin described Anthropic’s goal for people outside software teams. “We’ve seen developers work at the speed of thought.” — Nicholas Lin, product lead for knowledge work at Anthropic. The feature reflects that ambition, but its beta remains limited to Team and Enterprise customers using Google Meet. Wider access and support for additional platforms have no announced dates.
Ultimately, Claude Meetings shifts some AI work into the conversation itself. It can prepare plans, timelines and answers while participants are still discussing a task. Its launch is limited, and users still guide what it does. The next test will be whether teams find it useful enough to
bring into more kinds of meetings.
