Claude joins video calls as a visible participant, drafting docs mid-meeting and leaving notes and action items behind
Synopsis
Anthropic released Claude Meetings in beta, letting Claude join video calls as a visible participant that follows the conversation and starts work during the meeting. Teams can ask it questions out loud or in chat, it answers in writing by default, and with permission it can use each person's connected tools; it also builds docs and whiteboards alongside the team and writes the notes and action items. Support is currently limited to Google Meet, rolling out first on Team and Enterprise plans, with other platforms coming soon.
Interpretation
Claude can now join a video call as a visible participant, follow the conversation and begin producing docs, whiteboards and notes while the meeting is still running. Anthropic hands the writing of notes, action items and in-call artifacts to Claude on the meeting, so no one on the call has to do that work. Anthropic's example is a team planning a customer event: someone says "Claude, start a doc for this plan," and Claude writes up what the team has said so far while invited teammates edit the plan as the discussion continues.
Questions asked in the meeting get written answers by default, and Claude can look things up through the asker's connected tools once permitted. Tool access is granted per person, with the first yes applying going forward; for now, when someone asks out loud, Claude confirms each time who is speaking. When the budget comes up, someone asks what last year's event cost; Claude requests approval to look it up, posts the figure in the meeting chat and compares it with the current plan, and answers posted in chat are visible to everyone on the call.
Perspective
The demonstrated scope is Google Meet on Team and Enterprise plans: during beta, Claude's notes and transcripts are free, as are its in-call answers unless an answer uses a connected tool and counts toward plan usage, and docs, whiteboards and other artifacts it makes in a call are free through February 10, 2027. Support for other video conferencing platforms is not yet available.
During beta it is not available to some organizations, including those with zero data retention (ZDR), HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). Claude saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions but not audio, and for spoken questions it currently confirms the speaker's identity each time. Anthropic says it is working with partners such as Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud to send a meeting's transcript to tools teams already use, a capability not yet live.