Anthropic launches Claude for Google Meet and eyes massive IPO

Anthropic is bringing its Claude assistant to Google Meet as a visible participant in video calls. The new feature, called Claude Meetings, lets users add the assistant to calls to follow discussions and turn them into work in real time. Claude can draft plans, create timelines, and answer questions directly in the chat while the meeting is happening. The company states the tool moves beyond simple recording or summarizing to actually doing follow-up work during the discussion. Users can describe what they want, and Claude helps build it with them. Claude Meetings is starting in beta for Team and Enterprise customers on Google Meet, with plans to expand to other platforms. Alongside this, Anthropic introduced Claude Whiteboards to turn talks into action plans, along with Claude Sheets and Claude Data. Earlier on Tuesday, Anthropic also launched a roadshow for its US initial public offering, aiming to raise up to $64.4 billion at a $1.02 trillion valuation to fund its massive spending plans.

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This public offering marks a major test of investor interest in the ongoing artificial intelligence boom. Bringing AI directly into everyday workplace video calls reflects how tech companies are racing to embed generative assistants deeper into daily office software.