Anthropic has released workplace features including Claude Meetings, which joins video conferences and starts working while participants talk, TechCrunch reported on Monday.

Anthropic also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

The newly released features let teams add Claude as a participant in video meetings, the company said. Claude follows the conversation and writes a draft of the plan under discussion, and draws schedules on a whiteboard. It answers questions in meeting chat and pulls information such as last year’s figures from connected work apps. After the meeting, users can view the minutes, action items and materials Claude created in Claude.

Claude discloses that it is a meeting participant and posts a notice in meeting chat. Unless an administrator approves, Claude does not enter meetings with external participants, and it exits on its own if an outsider joins during a meeting.

Claude Meetings will be offered first as a beta to Claude Team and Enterprise plans. For now, it can be used only on Google Meet.

Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board that organizes discussions into a visual workspace containing schedules and deadlines. When brainstorming ends, Claude converts the board into a document or slides. Claude Sheets supports teams in creating and co-editing spreadsheets with Claude.

Claude edits cells directly and shows changes. Both Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets can be used in beta on paid plans.

Anthropic also officially launched Claude Data, which was renamed from the Claude dashboard.

Claude Data connects Claude to a data warehouse or CRM. Anthropic also announced interactive connectors that let users use apps such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot within Claude.

Anthropic’s move follows OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT-based workplace tools a few weeks ago.

OpenAI added collaboration spaces, documents and slide features to ChatGPT in late September. A prominent feature is “Spaces”. Spaces is a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where enterprise users can work with the chatbot and a newly launched AI agent persona called “Dots”. Dots performs tasks on behalf of users.

Chief Executive Sam Altman (샘 알트먼) said Spaces can be instructed to check team channels on specific pages and update them to reflect what it finds.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI appear to be growing their products into office-suite-like offerings to compete with Microsoft and Google. Meta has also joined the competition with an AI agent called Muse, TechCrunch said.