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Claude Gets Sheets, Whiteboards and a Meeting SeatTechnology
Claude can now build spreadsheets, run shared whiteboards and answer questions from company data, as Anthropic takes its assistant deeper into office work.
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Anthropic has given its Claude assistant a much bigger job in the office, launching a spreadsheet, a shared whiteboard and a data tool, and showing off a version of Claude that can sit in on meetings.
The company announced the new tools on Tuesday, November 10, at an event in San Francisco. Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards arrive in beta on every paid Claude plan, while Claude Dashboards leaves beta under a new name, Claude Data. A fourth tool, Claude Meetings, was shown off as coming soon.
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Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet that Claude builds and edits alongside its user, with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. A single prompt can produce a tracker or a budget, and every change Claude makes is shown so it can be followed. Anthropic is open that the spreadsheet is simple for now, and points people to a spreadsheet export when they need the full features of Excel. Each sheet holds at most 100,000 cells.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team can think through a plan with Claude in real time. A rough idea talked through out loud becomes a board with a timeline, owners and dates, and the board can keep developing while people are still talking.
Claude Data connects Claude to a company’s own numbers, through a data warehouse or a customer system, and turns questions into dashboards, data stories and short narrated videos. Teams can also certify the definitions behind their figures, so everyone works from the same numbers, and share live results with colleagues who do not have access to the underlying data.
Claude Meetings would take the assistant into video calls. Added to a Google Meet call as a visible participant, it follows the conversation, answers questions in the meeting chat, and starts work on the plan or document being discussed. Anthropic’s own announcement lists it as coming soon, while reports from the launch say it is starting in beta for Team and Enterprise customers. It will not join a call with outside guests unless an administrator allows it, and it leaves if one joins.
All three tools work on the web, on desktop and on mobile. On Team plans they are switched on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets start switched off until an administrator turns them on, while Claude Data switches on by default on November 19.
The launch puts Anthropic in direct competition with the makers of the office software most companies already use, and it came on the same day the company began the investor roadshow for its planned stock market listing. Microsoft shares fell about 3 percent on the day, according to market reports.
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