Claude can now join video calls as an active, visible teammate in Anthropic’s latest push to reinvent white collar jobs beyond coding

Anthropic's Claude AI has expanded its capabilities beyond software engineering, now joining video calls as an active, visible team member in a new suite of office productivity tools unveiled on Tuesday. These tools are part of Anthropic's strategy to attract corporate knowledge workers and boost its revenue ahead of an IPO that could value the company at $1.4 trillion.

At the launch event in San Francisco, Anthropic's Chief Product Officer Ami Vora showcased how Claude has transformed coding tasks, and now aims to do the same for other corporate roles. For instance, Claude Meetings allows professionals to add the AI to video calls, where it listens to the conversation, outlines a proposed plan, answers questions, and handles tasks such as retrieving data from connected work apps.

Similarly, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets enable brainstorming and collaborative building of spreadsheets, respectively. These products are currently in beta and aim to automate non-coding roles, potentially driving more businesses to subscribe to Claude services. However, the risk of wasted AI-generated material remains. Anthropic is also exploring deeper integration of Claude in critical business functions, such as connecting to data warehouses and CRM systems through Claude Data, and linking to existing apps via Claude Connectors.

With over 9,000 apps available as connectors, including Salesforce and Workday, teams can now collaborate within these apps without switching tabs. Anthropic's IPO launch comes as the company debuts frontier models Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, priced lower but with performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, attracting investor attention.