Claude has released a beta feature called Claude Meetings, which allows Claude to join a video call as a visible participant. Currently only available on Team and Enterprise plans.
Compared with common AI meeting minutes tools, the difference lies in the three words "visible". Many recording tools record secretly in the background and throw away a summary after the meeting; Claude Meetings sits in the meeting as a participant, and others can see its presence.
This has two purposes. The first level is compliance: many companies do not allow recording without greeting, and the identity of the participant is equivalent to putting "I am recording" on the surface. The other level is collaboration: in meetings, people can be called and asked questions while the discussion is going on, rather than just sorting it out afterwards.
To put it into context, this month office-type agents are gathering into meetings. Musk's Grok Bot 1.0 has also just announced that it can participate in video conference discussions; tools like Granola take a different approach, only recording local sound and not entering the conference. Which format is more acceptable depends largely on the attitude of the company's IT and legal affairs.
It is also consistent with this logic to open the team version and enterprise version first. Individual users have little demand for meeting minutes, while companies have a large number of regular meetings, weekly meetings and customer meetings to accumulate. As for which meeting platforms are specifically supported, how long the records will be saved, and whether they can be turned off, the official has not yet given a complete explanation. Teams planning to use it can first wait for the settings in the administrator's backend to come out.