Anthropic announced on Tuesday (10) Claude Sheets, a spreadsheet tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create, organize and edit documents. The new product puts the company in direct competition with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, but bets on integrating the Claude assistant to automate tasks and facilitate collaborative work.
The launch is part of the expansion of Anthropic's productivity tools. In addition to spreadsheets, the company introduced Claude Whiteboards, designed for organizing ideas, and announced the general availability of Claude Data, a platform for analyzing business information.
The new features were announced during an event in San Francisco (USA). According to the company, the aim is to allow teams to work with different types of documents and data without having to constantly transfer information between apps.
How does Claude Sheets work?
- Claude Sheets allows users to create spreadsheets from natural-language instructions. Instead of manually setting up tables, formulas and data structures, users can ask Claude to develop a document for a specific purpose;
- The tool can generate spreadsheets with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. Examples presented by Anthropic include developing campaign trackers and hiring budgets;
- The assistant can also directly edit cells in an existing spreadsheet. Changes made by the AI are highlighted, allowing users to track what was modified;
- Another feature is collaboration between people and AI in the same document. Team members can share a spreadsheet and continue working on it with Claude’s assistance;
- However, there is an important limitation: Anthropic acknowledges that Claude Sheets still offers basic spreadsheet functionality. To use more advanced Excel features, users can export files in XLSX or CSV formats and continue their work in other programs;
- The feature is available in beta for subscribers to Claude’s paid plans, on the web, computers, and mobile devices.
Anthropic also launches an AI-powered digital whiteboard
Another new offering from the company is Claude Whiteboards, a shared digital whiteboard for organizing ideas and developing projects with a team.
The tool can turn conversations and instructions into visual structures, including timelines, assignees, and deadlines. It can also group notes by topic and create task lists from discussions.
After organizing their ideas, users can ask Claude to turn the content into documents or presentations.
Like Sheets, Whiteboards is in beta and can be used by subscribers to paid plans. The tool works on the web, computers, and mobile devices.
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Claude Data becomes generally available
Anthropic also announced that Claude Dashboards, previously introduced in beta, is now called Claude Data and is generally available to subscribers on paid plans.
The tool connects Claude to enterprise systems such as databases and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. This allows teams to ask questions about information stored on these platforms and receive dashboards, written analyses, and even narrated videos with data.
The new feature also makes it possible to establish certified metric definitions, share updated results, and track changes made to dashboards.
Supported services include platforms such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, and ClickHouse.
Claude Meetings will bring AI to video calls
The expansion also includes Claude Meetings, an AI assistant developed to participate in videoconferencing meetings.The proposal is to allow Claude to join calls as a visible participant, record information discussed, and begin performing tasks while the conversation is underway.
The tool could, for example, turn discussions into notes and update work documents during meetings. According to Anthropic, the assistant will also be able to work together with Whiteboards, allowing ideas discussed during a call to be organized on a shared board.
Claude Meetings is still to launch and will initially have a beta version aimed at subscribers to the Team and Enterprise plans, starting with Google Meet.
Anthropic expands its competition with Microsoft and Google
The launch represents another step for Anthropic in taking Claude beyond the traditional functions of a chatbot. The company wants to compete for space in everyday office activities, bringing its assistant closer to established tools such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
The move also draws attention because Microsoft and Google are among the companies that support Anthropic. Now, the developer is directly competing in markets where its own investors have established products.
The strategy is to enable Claude to function as an AI layer integrated into different applications and services. The company also announced the expansion of interactive connectors, which make it possible to open partner tools such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box, and Notion within the Claude environment.
The initiative arrives at an important moment for Anthropic.The company aims to go public on the stock market on November 19, with an estimated valuation of approximately US$ 1.33 trillion (around R$ 7.1 trillion).
With the new tools, the company expands its operations in the corporate market and seeks to make AI a central part of productivity activities.
Rodrigo Mozelli is a journalist graduated from São Paulo Methodist University (UMESP) and currently works as a writer at Olhar Digital.
