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Claude can now join your Google Meet calls and build the doc while you talk
Your next meeting note-taker might be an AI that also writes the plan. Anthropic launched Claude Meetings in beta on November 12: Claude joins your video call as a visible participant, follows the conversation, and starts building documents, whiteboards, and slides while people are still talking. After the call, the notes, action items, transcript, and everything it built sit on a meeting page in claude.ai.
During the call, teammates can ask Claude questions out loud or in the meeting chat — what last year's event cost, for example — and it can pull figures from connected work apps with the speaker's permission. It announces itself when it joins and posts a notice in the chat. It saves a transcript, a summary, and screen descriptions, but not audio. Anthropic says it is working with partners including Gong, Granola, Fireflies.ai, and Otter so meeting transcripts can flow into the tools teams already use.
The catch is who can use it: the beta is only for Team and Enterprise plans, and only on Google Meet, with other video platforms promised later. By default Claude stays out of calls with outside guests and leaves if one joins partway through, and it is unavailable to organizations with zero data retention, HIPAA-ready setups, or customer-managed encryption keys. Notes and transcripts are free during the beta, and the docs and whiteboards it makes in a call are free through February 10, 2027. Anthropic has not said what any of it costs after that.
Why it matters
Meetings are where work plans are born and then lost in forgotten notes. An assistant that writes the plan, the timeline, and the action items while the discussion is still happening — and puts them where the team can find them — is the most practical use of an AI agent most offices will see this year.
Sources
- Anthropic — Introducing Claude Meetings, now in beta
- The Tech Outlook — Anthropic introduces Claude Meetings; starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans
- Beginners in AI — Claude Meetings: How It Works
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