Anthropic's Claude Meetings beta lets Claude join Google Meet calls and take notes

Anthropic has started a beta of Claude Meetings, a feature that lets Claude join a video call as a visible participant. According to the company's announcement, Claude follows the conversation, answers questions, writes notes and action items, and can start building documents and whiteboards while the meeting is still going. The beta is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans, and for now it works only with Google Meet. Anthropic says support for other video platforms is coming soon.

What changes

People on the call can put questions to Claude by speaking or by typing in chat. Anthropic says Claude replies in writing by default, and it can draw on a person's connected tools if that person gives permission.

The company gives an example of a team planning a customer event. Someone asks Claude to start a doc, and Claude writes up what has been said so far while teammates on the invite edit it. When the budget comes up, Claude asks for approval to look up last year's cost, posts the figure in chat and compares it with the current plan. Later, it puts the timeline on a whiteboard so the team can work on the schedule next to the doc.

After the call, the notes, action items and anything Claude built sit on a page for that meeting in claude.ai. Anthropic says users can return to past meetings they attended and ask Claude about them, and can add Claude to future meetings from their calendar in claude.ai. The company also says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud so teams can send a meeting's transcript to those tools. It describes that as coming soon.

Privacy and security

By default, Claude stays out of calls that include someone from outside the organization, and it leaves if an outside guest joins partway through. An admin can change that setting. On calls with outside guests, Claude posts its notice in the chat but does not reply there, and what guests say still goes into the notes and transcript.

When Claude joins, it shows up as a participant and posts a notice in the chat. Anthropic says it keeps a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen, but not audio. People from the organization who were on the invite can see and edit each meeting page, and it can be shared with others inside the organization.

Claude asks for permission the first time it uses someone's connected tools, and that yes carries forward. For spoken requests, Claude currently checks each time who is talking. Any answer posted in the call's chat can be seen by everyone on the call. Anthropic advises making sure everyone on a call is fine with being transcribed before adding Claude or turning on auto-join.

Who gets it and what it costs

On Team plans, inviting Claude to meetings is on by default and an admin can switch it off. Enterprise plans need an admin to enable it, either for the whole organization or for only part of it. During the beta, some organizations can't use it. These include organizations with a HIPAA-ready configuration, those on zero data retention (ZDR) and those using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

According to Anthropic, notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta. The exception is an answer that relies on a connected tool, which counts toward the plan's usage. Docs, whiteboards and other artifacts Claude creates in a call are free through February 10, 2027.

What to watch

Anthropic says support for other video platforms and transcript sharing with partner tools are on the way, but it gives no dates. The free period for in-call artifacts runs through February 10, 2027, and setup steps are in Anthropic's Help Center.