Anthropic has started rolling out Claude Meetings, a beta feature that lets its Claude assistant join video calls as a visible participant and start work while people talk. The company said the beta is open to Claude Team and Enterprise customers and supports Google Meet first, with other video platforms "coming soon."
The launch moves Claude from answering prompts in a chat window to acting inside a live group conversation. VentureBeat reported the rollout on Nov. 12.
What Claude does on a call
According to Anthropic, people on the call can ask Claude questions out loud or in the meeting chat. Claude answers in writing by default and can use connected tools, with permission, to look things up.
Claude can also build documents and whiteboards during the meeting, the company said, and teammates on the invite can edit them while the discussion continues. Anthropic's own example is a team planning a customer event. Someone asks Claude to start a plan document, then asks what last year's event cost, and Claude requests approval to look up the figure before posting it in chat and comparing it with the new plan.
After the call, Claude creates a page in claude.ai holding the notes, action items, transcript and anything it built. People from the organization who were on the invite can view and edit it and share it inside the company. Users can later ask Claude questions about meetings they attended.
Anthropic said it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud so teams can send meeting transcripts to those services.
Permissions and privacy defaults
Several of the beta's defaults deal with the risk of an agent sitting in on conversations. Anthropic said Claude is set to stay out of a call when someone from outside the organization is invited, and to leave if an outsider joins partway through. An admin can change that, and on calls with outside guests Claude posts a notice in the chat but does not reply there.
Claude uses each person's connected tools only with that person's permission, the company said. It asks the first time, and a yes applies going forward. When a request is spoken aloud, Claude for now asks each time to confirm who is speaking.
When it joins, Claude appears in the participant list and posts a notice in the chat. Anthropic said it keeps a written transcript and descriptions of shared screens, but not audio. The company tells customers to make sure everyone on a call agrees to be transcribed before adding Claude or turning on automatic joining.
On Team plans the feature is on by default and an admin can switch it off. On Enterprise plans an admin must turn it on for all or part of the organization. The beta is not available to some organizations, including those that use zero data retention or customer-managed encryption keys, the company said.
Pricing during the beta
Anthropic said Claude's notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta, as are its in-call answers. Answers that use a connected tool count toward a plan's usage. Artifacts such as documents and whiteboards made in a call are free through Feb. 10, 2027.
VentureBeat noted that Anthropic has not said what it will charge for those artifacts after that date. Anthropic has not given a timeline for adding other video platforms, Gadgets 360 reported.
Source: Anthropic, “Introducing Claude Meetings, now in beta”
Additional sources: VentureBeat, “Anthropic brings Claude into Google Meet to draft documents and whiteboards during your meetings”; Gadgets 360, “Claude Meetings Launched in Beta for Team and Enterprise Subscribers”
