Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a feature that puts its Claude assistant inside workplace discussions and aims to turn them into plans and tasks.
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan under discussion and map out a timeline on a whiteboard, meaning a shared visual canvas. It can answer questions in the meeting chat. It can also reach into connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures.
AI in meetings is not new. Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet all offer assistants that transcribe calls and summarize them. What stands out here is the list of verbs: drafting, mapping, answering, fetching. Taken at face value, that describes a participant with a seat at the table rather than a note-taker in the corner, though the launch description does not say how well any of it works.
The details that would settle the question are missing. Nothing in the description covers pricing, which work apps connect, or how Claude handles a meeting where people disagree about the plan it just drafted.
The app connections may matter most. A figure pulled from a connected app lands in front of everyone on the call, so an assistant like this is only as useful, and only as safe, as the access it is given. Which documents it can see, and who decides, is the part worth watching.