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Anthropic has unveiled a set of AI-powered office tools aimed at non-technical knowledge workers: Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Meetings, announced at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The tools let Claude edit spreadsheets alongside employees, lay out ideas on a shared whiteboard, or turn a presentation into a one-minute explainer video.
Availability differs by tool, and the timing of one is disputed. Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta for all paid plans, while The Verge reports Meetings, which joins calls and takes notes, is available in beta for Teams and Enterprise subscriptions. The Decoder, covering the same event, says Meetings is only launching "soon", so its exact status remains unclear pending clarification. Separately, Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, has moved from its October beta to general availability for all paid plans, and can connect to sources such as Snowflake and Salesforce to build dashboards and data visualisations.
Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, said Claude Code "changed how engineers work a year ago", with knowledge workers now "the gap we're hoping to close". He added that "there's still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers". The company also introduced interactive connectors that let users open partner apps, such as a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker, inside Claude itself, building on a Model Context Protocol marketplace that has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options. Enterprise customers get security controls including audit logs, isolated virtual machines and a compliance API.
Anthropic is not alone in this territory: Google's Gemini can join meetings and take live notes, OpenAI's ChatGPT has a similar "record" feature in some cases, and Google offers its own interactive connectors across its office suite. The move comes as Anthropic reportedly faces investor pressure to show a viable path to profit ahead of a potential IPO.