Claude Meetings beta joins Google Meet calls at Anthropic

Claude Meetings turns Claude from a chat assistant into a participant in the meeting itself, rather than a tool used before or after it. Anthropic says users can summon it by name during a call or give it instructions from the Google Meet chat, and it answers in text there by default. The feature also reaches into materials: in an event planning meeting, for example, asking Claude to draft a plan produces a document built on the discussion so far, which participants can edit together while the meeting continues.

Claude can also draw on connected external tools, such as checking past event costs against the current plan or sending a Slack message, and each use of an external tool requires the user's permission. After the call, summaries, minutes, action items and materials are saved to a meeting page on claude.ai, where invited members of the organization can view and edit them and later ask Claude about what was discussed. Joining can be manual or automatic; the feature is on by default for Team plans but needs an administrator to enable it on Enterprise plans.

Anthropic has set boundaries around privacy and access. Claude shows up as a participant and is announced in the chat, meeting audio is not stored (transcripts, summaries and screen descriptions are), and everyone in the meeting must agree to transcription. The beta is free for minutes and Q&A that do not use connected tools, while use of connected tools counts against a plan's usage, and documents and whiteboards created during meetings are free through 27年2月10日. Some organizations using zero data retention, HIPAA configurations or customer-managed encryption keys cannot use it at all.