Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, putting Claude inside Google Meet calls

Anthropic began rolling out Claude Meetings in beta on November 12 to Team and Enterprise subscribers, letting Claude join Google Meet calls as a visible participant that follows the discussion, answers questions and drafts documents, plans and whiteboards while the meeting is still under way, turning talk directly into work.

According to Anthropic, participants invite Claude into a call the way they would invite a colleague. Claude appears in the meeting grid as a labelled participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. During the call it listens to the discussion, answers questions in the chat, pulls in data from connected work apps and saves notes and action items to claude.ai afterwards. Claude can stay in a meeting for up to eight hours, with a warning before it leaves.

Google Meet only for now; some organisations excluded

Claude Meetings currently supports Google Meet only, with Anthropic saying support for other video conferencing platforms is “coming soon”. The feature is on by default for Team subscribers, who can be switched off by an administrator; Enterprise subscribers need an administrator to enable it. Organisations with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys cannot use it yet.

On privacy, Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant. It will not join a call with external guests unless an administrator authorises it, and it leaves automatically if an external guest joins midway. During the beta, meeting notes, transcripts and Claude’s in-call answers are free; documents and whiteboards created during meetings are free through February 10, 2027.

Workplace AI moves from chat into the meeting room

Claude Meetings is part of a workplace bundle Anthropic announced on November 10, alongside Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and the general availability of Claude Data. Nicholas Lin, Anthropic’s product lead for knowledge work, told Axios the company had tested it internally for about two months and Claude now joins nearly all of Anthropic’s own meetings. It marks AI assistants moving from the chat window into live meetings, challenging standalone AI notetakers head-on and competing directly with Google’s own note-taking in Meet. Anthropic is also in the middle of its initial public offering roadshow this week, with pricing reportedly targeted for around November 18.

(Image: Parentesis Media. A laptop showing the Claude interface; not a meeting scene.)