The company is attracting white-collar workers ahead of its IPO.
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- And now, Anthropic is trying to expand its reach to other knowledge workers with an AI-powered office suite.
- These tools allow Claude to join meetings, take notes, present ideas on a shared whiteboard, edit spreadsheets with employees, or turn presentations into one-minute explainer videos.
- The new “Artifacts,” or the graphical user interface version of Anthropic, comes two and a half years after Artifacts first launched and joins existing tools like Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion.
The company is attracting white-collar workers ahead of its IPO.
For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and cryptographic tools aimed at attracting successful enterprise customers, inspiring competing frontier labs — like OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta — to copy its strategy. Earlier this year, Claude Code went through its own particular hype cycle. And now, Anthropic is trying to expand its reach to other knowledge workers with an AI-powered office suite.
At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled new tools for non-technical workers who spend a lot of time attending meetings, brainstorming new ideas and analyzing metrics: Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards. These tools allow Claude to join meetings, take notes, present ideas on a shared whiteboard, edit spreadsheets with employees, or turn presentations into one-minute explainer videos. The new “Artifacts,” or the graphical user interface version of Anthropic, comes two and a half years after Artifacts first launched and joins existing tools like Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion.
Claude Whiteboards, Sheets, and Meetings are all currently available in beta, with the first two versions available for all paid plans and Meetings available for Teams and Business subscriptions. The company also announced that Claude Data (formerly known as Claude Dashboards when introduced in beta in October) is now available for all paid plans.
Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge in a briefing that Claude Code “changed the way engineers worked a year ago” — and now the company is looking for knowledge workers as “a gap we hope to close.”
“I think there's still a lot of friction when it comes to applying AI to non-developers,” he said.
The company also unveiled new interactive connectors that allow users to open apps from partner companies, such as HubSpot, Adobe and Atlassian, inside Claude. The company launched the Model Context Protocol about two years ago, and its tools marketplace has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options; Now, Lin said, the company is looking to make those connections much deeper so users don't have to switch tabs to access the services they use every day, but instead just embed them in Claude. For example, with the new tools, people can access a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker inside Claude itself.