Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings Beta for Real-Time Collaboration

Anthropic has introduced Claude Meetings, a beta feature that allows the AI to join video conferences as a visible participant to co-create artifacts like documents and whiteboards while a team is still talking. Instead of just summarizing a meeting after it ends, Claude can actively participate in the workflow, such as drafting a customer event plan or updating a schedule on a shared whiteboard as the conversation progresses.

This image illustrates the core functionality of Claude Meetings, where the AI joins a call as a visible participant.

Real-Time Artifact Creation

During a meeting, Claude can be asked to start a document or a whiteboard based on the current discussion. For example, if a team is planning a customer event, Claude can write up the plan in real-time, allowing teammates to edit the content while the conversation continues.

This visual demonstrates the real-time artifact creation, specifically the example of drafting a customer event plan.

Claude can also perform data lookups by accessing connected tools. If a user asks about a previous year's budget, Claude can request permission to check the data, post the result in the meeting chat, and compare it to the current plan.

This image supports the description of Claude co-creating artifacts like documents while the conversation continues.

“Claude can now join your video calls as a visible participant, follow the conversation and start on work during the meeting.”

— Introducing Claude Meetings, now in beta

Privacy and Security Framework

To manage privacy, Claude is configured by default to stay out of calls involving people from outside the organization. It will also leave a meeting automatically if an external guest joins partway through, unless an administrator changes these settings.

When Claude joins a call, it posts a notice in the chat to inform all participants. While it captures transcripts and screen descriptions, it does not save raw audio. For external guests, Claude's presence is noted in the chat, but it does not reply to guests directly.

Availability and Limitations

Claude Meetings is currently in beta and is available for users on Team and Enterprise plans. While it is currently supported on Google Meet, Anthropic plans to expand support to other video conferencing platforms soon.

The feature is not available to all organizations immediately; specifically, it is restricted for those with zero data retention (ZDR) configurations, HIPAA-ready setups, or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

While notes and transcripts are free during the beta period, using connected tools to fetch data counts toward the plan's usage limits.