Artificial intelligence: Anthropic is competing with Microsoft in office software

Claude Meetings joins Google Meet as a participant in video conferences. The program writes the minutes, answers questions in the conference chat and starts working while the participants are still talking: the AI ​​draws up the plan that the team has just discussed.

"For years we have learned to adapt to the software. Now Claude adapts to you," says Anthropic product manager Ami Vora. The aim is to offer office workers the same productivity advances that programmers already enjoy thanks to new AI tools.

The goal: “Knowledge workers” such as business economists or lawyers should delegate entire tasks to Claude, just as developers do with the Claude Code programming tool.

Anthropic admits weaknesses in its own office assistant Cowork, whose launch in January triggered a sell-off in software stocks. Cowork “for most people still felt like a chat interface” for programmers, said Nicholas Lin, who heads knowledge work products at Anthropic, in an interview with Handelsblatt. The hurdle of learning how to use it and introducing cowork was “still pretty high”.