Anthropic puts Claude into Google Meet calls with the Claude Meetings beta
Claude Meetings, now in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise plans, adds Claude to Google Meet calls to answer questions, take notes and build documents during the meeting.
Anthropic introduced Claude Meetings on November 12, 2026. The beta lets Claude join a video call as a visible participant, follow the discussion and start on tasks while people are still talking. It is rolling out to Team and Enterprise plans, and Google Meet is the only supported platform for now.
What's new
- During the call: people can ask Claude questions out loud or in the chat. Anthropic says Claude replies in writing by default and can draw on connected tools once a user grants permission.
- Shared work: Claude can draft documents, whiteboards and other artifacts that colleagues on the invite can edit as the meeting goes on. It also records notes and action items.
- After the call: each meeting gets its own page in claude.ai holding the notes, transcript and anything Claude built. Anthropic says Claude keeps a transcript, a summary and screen descriptions, but not audio.
- Privacy defaults: Claude stays out of calls that include people from outside the organization, and leaves if an outsider joins later, unless an admin changes that setting.
- Partners: Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud so teams can send transcripts to those tools.
Availability and pricing
On Team plans the feature is on by default; on Enterprise plans an admin enables it. Anthropic says it is not yet available to organizations with zero data retention, HIPAA-ready setups or customer-managed encryption keys. During the beta, notes, transcripts and answers are free on both plans, except answers that use a connected tool, which count toward plan usage. Artifacts made in calls are free through February 10, 2027, according to Anthropic.
Why it matters
Analysis: meeting note-takers are a crowded category, and this move puts Claude in direct competition with tools that many teams already pay for. The difference Anthropic is betting on is that Claude can act on the conversation, not just summarize it. Teams should still check consent rules before turning on auto-join, as Anthropic itself advises.
Source: Anthropic