Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings in Beta for Google Meet
Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings in beta, allowing its AI assistant to join Google Meet calls as a visible participant for Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, NDTV Gadgets and UkrMedia News reported. During calls, users can question Claude aloud or via chat, and the assistant replies in writing by default, drafts editable documents and interactive whiteboards, pulls data from connected tools with permission, and saves transcripts, summaries, notes, and action items to a claude.ai page, NDTV Gadgets reported. UkrMedia News noted the beta launched on November 12, and Anthropic plans to add other video conferencing platforms without giving a timeline.
Privacy Controls, Availability, and Pricing
By default, Claude does not join calls with external participants and exits if an outside guest joins later, though organization administrators can change those controls, UkrMedia News reported. The assistant announces its presence in chat, transcribes discussions, and describes shared screens without recording audio, and Anthropic advises notifying participants and obtaining consent before enabling transcription, NDTV Gadgets noted. Team plans get the beta enabled by default while Enterprise admins must enable it, and organizations using zero data retention, HIPAA-ready setups, or customer-managed encryption keys are excluded, NDTV Gadgets reported. Transcripts, notes, and answers carry no extra fee during beta, documents and whiteboards remain free until February 10, 2027, and connected-tool queries count toward plan usage limits, NDTV Gadgets added. Anthropic is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter, and Plaud so meeting transcripts can integrate with those tools, without a set release date, according to Pasquale Pillitteri. During a Google Meet call, Claude can stay for up to eight hours and warns participants before it leaves, according to Anthropic. On November 10, Anthropic said Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets are in beta and Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is generally available, according to DonVitoCodes. Anthropic's Team standard seats cost $20 per user per month with annual billing or $25 with monthly billing, and the published Enterprise rate is $20 per seat per month billed annually with a 20-seat minimum, according to VentureBeat.