Anthropic launches Claude Meetings Beta for live video calls – Unite.AI

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 who can answer questions and turn discussions into notes, actions and editable documents.

During a call, participants can address Claude out loud or in chat. By default it responds in writing and can use the connected tools subject to the authorization of the interested party. Claude can also create documents, whiteboards, and other artifacts as the conversation develops, while invited teammates refine them. This moves the writing and note-taking into the discussion itself, rather than leaving it until after the call.

Live work pages and persistent meetings

In Anthropic’s example, a team planning an event for a client asks Claude to initiate a plan based on what has already been said. When the budget arrives, Claude asks for approval to recover the previous year’s cost, posts the figure in chat and compares it to the current plan. The group can then put the timeline on a whiteboard as they continue to edit the document and ask Claude to share a summary before the meeting ends.

Each meeting receives a separate claude.ai page containing the notes, transcript and everything Claude has produced. People in your organization participating in the invitation can view the page, edit Claude’s results, and share them with others in your organization. Participants can later return to meetings they attended, ask Claude for information, 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. This integration is planned and is not part of the current beta.

Privacy and permission controls

Claude appears as a participant and posts a chat alert when he joins. Save a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions instead of audio. Anthropic tells users to make sure everyone on the call agrees to be transcribed before adding Claude or enabling auto-join.

External guests change the default behavior. Claude stays out of the call when someone from outside the organization is invited and leaves if an outsider joins the call. An administrator can allow Claude to make calls with external guests. In allowed calls, Claude publishes his notice but does not respond in chat, while the guest’s speech remains included in the notes and transcript.

The connected tools operate based on each person’s permissions. Approval is requested the first time and then applies thereafter. For spoken requests, Claude currently asks each time to confirm who is speaking. Replies posted in the call chat are visible to all call participants.

Deployment limitations 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 him or has automatic login 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.

Beta is not available for some organizations, including those using zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready setup, or customer-managed encryption keys.

Notes, transcriptions, and call responses are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta, unless a response uses a connected tool, in which case it counts toward plan usage. Documents, whiteboards and other items created during calls are free until February 10, 2027.

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