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Anthropic Introduces Claude Meetings, Letting Claude Join a Team Video Call and Build Docs Live

Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking. Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.

A video call grid with a smiling participant labeled You, a teammate at the side, and a Claude tile that says Hey team, next to the words Claude Meetings.

Context

Why it matters

Claude can now sit in a meeting as a visible participant and start the writeup while the team is still talking, which changes how groups may use an AI assistant in live work.

Claude posted that Claude Meetings lets teams add Claude to a video call, where it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts during the conversation. The post said the feature is starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. Follow up posts said Claude joins as a visible participant, takes notes, and is starting with Google Meet.

Deep dive

Claude announced Claude Meetings on November 12, saying teams can add Claude to a video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts while people are still talking. The company said the feature is starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.

In a follow up post, Claude said it joins as a visible participant. Teams can ask it a question out loud or in chat, or have it start a doc, and can see what it is building and correct it as it takes shape. Another post said Claude takes the notes too, and that after the call the notes, action items, transcript, and anything Claude built are on the meeting's page in Claude. A fourth post said Claude Meetings is starting with Google Meet, with support for other video conferencing platforms coming soon.

Anthropic's article on the launch matches those points. It says Claude can use connected tools with permission, writes notes and action items so no one on the call has to, and by default stays out of calls when someone from outside the organization is invited. The article also says support is currently available for Google Meet, notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta, and docs, whiteboards and other artifacts made in a call are free through February 10, 2027. It is not available during the beta to some organizations, including those with zero data retention, HIPAA ready configuration, or customer managed encryption keys.

What to expect next

Watch the beta rollout on Team and Enterprise plans, and whether support expands beyond Google Meet as Claude said it would. A practical test is whether teams actually let Claude build and edit docs live, and how often they correct it on the call. Anthropic said it is also working with meeting tools so transcripts can go to software teams already use. That would be an early sign the feature is meant to fit into existing workflows, not replace them outright.