Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, Sheets, Whiteboards in beta

Anthropic built its reputation on enterprise and coding tools — Claude Code in particular went through its own hype cycle earlier this year — and competing frontier labs have copied that strategy. The new suite is an attempt to carry that footprint to a broader group of knowledge workers. Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, said Claude Code "changed how engineers work a year ago" and that the company now sees knowledge workers as "the gap we're hoping to close," citing friction in AI adoption for non-developers. The tools join existing ones like Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion, and fit alongside interactive connectors that let people open partner apps such as HubSpot, Adobe and Atlassian inside Claude, building on a marketplace that has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options since Model Context Protocol launched about two years ago. The timing carries weight: Anthropic is under pressure to generate revenue and drive product engagement ahead of an IPO that could be the most valuable public debut of all time, and investors want to see a viable path to profit.