Anthropic launched a beta of Claude Meetings on November 12. Once enabled, Claude joins a video call as a visible participant, follows the discussion and starts working before the meeting ends: answering colleagues' questions, building documents and whiteboards on the spot, organizing notes and action items, and even posting the meeting summary to the team before everyone hangs up.
The feature is rolling out in stages to Team and Enterprise plans; Pro, Max and free users are not included this time. Google Meet is the only supported platform for now. Anthropic says other video conferencing platforms are "coming soon" but did not name Zoom or Teams, and gave no date.
What Claude can do in a meeting
Colleagues can ask Claude out loud during the call or type a question in the chat. Claude answers in text by default and, with the person's permission, can use connected tools. When a question is spoken, Claude first confirms who is asking each time; the answer is posted in the meeting chat, where every participant can see it.
Documents, whiteboards and other items created during the meeting can be edited together by invited colleagues. Afterward, the notes, action items, proposals and whiteboards sit on a dedicated page for that meeting in claude.ai, and can be shared with others in the organization. Users can later ask Claude what was discussed in an earlier meeting, or add it to an upcoming one directly from the calendar in claude.ai.
Anthropic also named five partners, Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter, and said meeting transcripts will soon be sendable to them in one click. It did not say when that will go live.
What gets recorded, and who controls it
On privacy, the company's wording is fairly specific:
"It saves a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions, not audio."
When Claude joins, it posts a notice in the meeting chat. When it connects to external tools, each person is asked for authorization the first time, and one approval stays in effect afterward.
Admin controls differ by plan. On Team plans, inviting Claude is allowed by default and admins can turn it off. On Enterprise plans, an admin has to actively enable it for the whole organization or for selected members. External guests are a separate tier: by default, Claude will not join if the invite list includes anyone outside the organization, and it will leave if an outsider joins mid-meeting. Admins can lift that restriction. Once they do, Claude only posts its join notice in the chat and does not reply there, but guests' speech is still captured in the notes and transcript.
During the beta, organizations with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled, configured for HIPAA, or using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) cannot use the feature yet. The blog post does not state how long transcripts and notes are kept, and only reminds users to make sure all participants consent to being transcribed before adding Claude or turning on auto-join.
Pricing
During the beta, notes and transcripts are free for Team and Enterprise. Q&A in the meeting is also free, but answers that call external tools count toward plan usage. Documents, whiteboards and other items generated in meetings are free until February 10, 2027; how they will be charged afterward has not been announced.
Is it usable for teams in China?
The short answer is that direct use is a high bar. Claude itself is not offered in mainland China, and Google Meet cannot be reached directly there either. With both restrictions stacked, the feature is for now meaningful mainly to teams overseas.
The comparable tools Chinese teams already have are mostly the AI minutes built into meeting software, such as the smart minutes and in-meeting Q&A in Tencent Meeting and Feishu Meetings. Their approach embeds AI in the meeting app itself. Claude Meetings works the other way around: the AI enters someone else's meeting software as "a person," and what it produces is stored in Claude's own workspace. This is the same line as the Whiteboards and Sheets betas Claude launched earlier this month; meetings become one more entry point for pulling work content into claude.ai.
For multinational teams, the default of keeping Claude out when external guests are present will directly affect how often it gets used. Sales and client calls, the settings that most need minutes, are exactly the ones with people from outside the organization, so whether admins are willing to lift the restriction will decide how many meetings it reaches.
Sources: CocoLoop, Claude official blog; the official blog was checked for eligible plans, supported platform, the end date of the free period and the organization types not yet supported.