Unlike conventional AI meeting assistants that primarily record conversations and generate summaries afterwards, Claude Meetings can work on tasks in real time.

Teams can invite Claude into a video meeting as a visible participant.

As employees discuss projects, the AI assistant can prepare plans, develop timelines, organise tasks and answer questions through the meeting chat.

It can also retrieve information from connected workplace applications, allowing participants to request relevant documents or business figures without interrupting the discussion.

After the meeting, participants can access notes, action items and other materials created by Claude through its website.

Anthropic says the feature is intended to help teams move directly from discussion to execution rather than waiting until meetings end.

Claude Meetings is initially available in beta for Team and Enterprise subscribers using Google Meet.

The company says Claude identifies itself when joining a meeting and posts a notification in the meeting chat.

It will not join calls involving external guests without administrator authorisation and will automatically leave if an external participant joins.

Support for additional plans is expected later.

Alongside Claude Meetings, Anthropic introduced Claude Whiteboards, a collaborative workspace where teams can develop ideas and turn them into structured plans.

Users can create visual timelines, assign deadlines and convert completed whiteboards into documents or presentations.