Anthropic launches Claude office tools to rival Google Workspace

Anthropic is taking on Google Workspace with a set of office tools built into Claude. The company introduced Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, and said a tool that can join video calls and take notes would follow.

With Claude Sheets, a team can ask Claude to build a hiring budget and get a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas and charts. Anthropic wants colleagues to keep working on that same spreadsheet inside Claude. Anyone with editing access can make changes, and Claude outlines the cells it edits. Teams can still export an .xlsx or .csv copy to send to a client or use elsewhere, Anthropic says.

Sheets is in beta for paid subscribers, with editing on the web and desktop and basic read-only access on mobile. It supports up to 100,000 cells per sheet. Pivot tables and live imports from connected apps are still missing.

• Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared canvas where Claude can group ideas, draft action items and turn a board into a document or slide deck. Anthropic offers the beta on paid plans.

• Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available on paid plans. It connects to sources such as BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. Anthropic also introduced beta features that let data teams certify the queries behind company metrics and share dashboards that display updated results.
• Claude Meetings will let Claude join calls, take notes and update documents during the discussion. Anthropic listsGoogle Meet as the supported platform for the Team and Enterprise beta.

The rollout comes as Anthropic prepares to go public. The IPO could value the company at up to $1.4 trillion on a fully diluted basis.