Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings Beta for Live Video Calls

Anthropic on November 12, 2026 began rolling out Claude Meetings in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, bringing Claude into video calls as a visible participant that can answer questions and turn discussions into notes, action items and editable documents.

During a call, participants can address Claude aloud or in chat. It answers in writing by default and can use connected tools with the relevant person’s permission. Claude can also build documents, whiteboards and other artifacts as the conversation develops, while teammates on the invitation refine them. That moves drafting and note-taking into the discussion itself, rather than leaving them until after the call.

Live Work and Persistent Meeting Pages

In Anthropic’s example, a team planning a customer event asks Claude to start a plan based on what has already been said. When the budget comes up, Claude requests approval to retrieve the previous year’s cost, posts the figure in chat and compares it with the current plan. The group can then put the timeline on a whiteboard while continuing to edit the document, and ask Claude to share a recap before the meeting ends.

Each meeting receives a separate claude.ai page containing its notes, transcript and anything Claude produced. People from the organization who were on the invitation can view the page and edit Claude’s outputs, and they can share it with others in the organization. Participants can later return to meetings they attended, ask Claude about them or add Claude to another meeting from their claude.ai calendar.

Anthropic said it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so users will soon be able to send meeting transcripts to those tools. That integration is planned rather than part of the current beta.

Privacy and Permission Controls

Claude appears as a participant and posts a chat notice when it joins. It saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions rather than audio. Anthropic tells users to make sure everyone on a call agrees to being transcribed before adding Claude or enabling auto-join.

External guests change the default behavior. Claude stays out of a call when someone outside the organization is invited and leaves if an outsider joins partway through. An administrator can allow Claude on calls with outside guests. On those permitted calls, Claude posts its notice but does not reply in chat, while guest speech remains included in the notes and transcript.

Connected tools operate under each person’s permissions. Approval is requested the first time and then applies going forward. For spoken requests, Claude currently asks each time to confirm who is speaking. Answers posted in the call’s chat are visible to everyone on the call.

Rollout Limits and Beta Pricing

Google Meet is the supported platform at launch, and Anthropic described support for other video-conferencing platforms as coming soon. Claude joins when someone adds it or has auto-join enabled. On Team plans, meeting invitations are available by default and administrators can disable them. Enterprise administrators must enable the feature for all or part of their organizations.

The beta is unavailable to some organizations, including those using zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys.

Notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta, unless an answer uses a connected tool, in which case it counts toward plan usage. Documents, whiteboards and other artifacts created during calls are free through February 10, 2027.

Claude Meetings shifts more of the work into the call and more of the call into a managed workspace. Its practical use therefore depends on transcription consent, guest policy and connected-tool permissions as much as on Claude’s ability to draft documents and take notes.