Anthropic takes on Microsoft Office as Claude gets Sheets, Whiteboards and a meeting assistant; Microsoft shares fall about 3%

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Tuesday (November 10) unveiled a slate of workplace productivity tools at an event in San Francisco, including Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Meetings, pushing Claude from a coding assistant into the office-suite territory of Microsoft and Google. Microsoft shares fell about 3% after the announcement.

Sheets, Whiteboards and Meetings in one push

Claude Sheets is now available in beta to paying subscribers across the web, desktop and mobile. It supports multiple tabs, formulas, dropdown menus and formatting; users can ask Claude to build a campaign tracker or a hiring budget from a single prompt, and files can be exported to Excel. A Google Workspace plugin is also available. Anthropic product lead Nicholas Lin said Sheets is not built for sophisticated financial modelling or advanced enterprise workloads.

Claude Whiteboards, also in beta for all paid users, is a shared, real-time board that turns a spoken plan into a board with a timeline, owners and dates, and generates action items. It also works inside Meetings, so the board builds while people talk.

Claude Meetings is being tested with Team and Enterprise customers. It adds Claude to a Google Meet call as a visible participant, taking notes and updating the documents a team is working on while the conversation continues. Anthropic also renamed Claude Dashboards, launched in beta in October, to Claude Data; it is now generally available to paid users, connecting to customer-relationship systems and data warehouses such as Snowflake, Salesforce and BigQuery to generate dashboards, written summaries or narrated videos.

Competing with its own backers

Anthropic also launched Interactive Connectors, letting apps from companies such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot open inside Claude. Bloomberg noted that the launch puts Anthropic in sharper competition with Microsoft and Google, both of which are Anthropic investors, with the new tools aimed at the office seats the two companies sell today.

The launch came on the same day Anthropic began marketing its initial public offering to investors. Citing the company's filing, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic's revenue run rate stood at about $81 billion as of October 31, up about $10 billion in a month. Earlier reports said Anthropic plans to list on Nasdaq later in November.

What to watch next

The launch follows Claude Docs and Slides, released in September, extending Claude from coding into everyday office work. The market will now watch when Claude Meetings reaches more users, whether Sheets can grow from basic tables toward more complex enterprise workflows, and how Microsoft and Google respond, including through their Copilot and Gemini office features.

Sources: Engadget, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Verge, Anthropic announcement, November 10, 2026.