Claude can now join video calls as an active, visible teammate in Anthropic’s latest push to reinvent white collar jobs beyond coding
For example, with Claude Meetings, professionals can add Claude to video calls as a “visible participant,” Anthropic said.
Key points
- Engineers can now delegate entire tasks to AI, but at the same time the work for most other teams has largely stayed the same, save for perhaps an email getting written faster, or a meeting being summarized.
- Anthropic’s renewed push to attract corporate knowledge workers could put the company in closer competition with other software vendors such as Microsoft, whose shares were down more than 2% after the news was announced.
- The AI listens to the conversation and can “start on the work while people are still talking.” It lays out the proposed plan and timeline, answers questions in the call chat, and handles tasks such as pulling up last year’s numbers, using “the work apps people have connected,” Anthropic said.
“Now they can open the full app beside the conversation and ask Claude to work in it with them.” That means “no more switching tabs,” said Nicholas Lin, who leads product for knowledge work at Anthropic, on stage at today’s event.
Similarly, new Claude Connectors “link Claude to the apps a company already uses, so Claude can pull information from them and take actions in them,” Anthropic said.
Additional details
- Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer Ami Vora spoke on stage about how Claude has changed computer coding over the past year.
- Anthropic’s vision is to turn Claude into an active member a team, rather than an optimization tool for individuals.
- The new products are an important part of Anthropic’s effort to broaden its base of paying customers and boost its revenue as it moves closer to a widely-anticipated initial public stock offering.
- It gives nervous ‘AI-trade’ investors meaningful potential upside while securing the capital Anthropic needs to take full control of its destiny and fund its compute commitments.” Also this….
- The idea of Claude revolutionizing non-coding roles in the same way it’s done for coding could energize the IPO and drive up the share price.
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