When did you last create a deck in PowerPoint?
I don't mean tidy a slide. I mean start from a blank deck and build the thing yourself.
If the answer is "not recently," you're not lazy. The work has been moving. Anthropic just made that much harder to ignore.
On November 12, Anthropic introduced Claude Meetings. You add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. It follows the conversation, answers questions in writing, and builds docs, whiteboards, slides and other artifacts while you're still talking. It writes the notes and action items. Afterward, everything it made lives on a meeting page in claude.ai.
It's rolling out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, in Claude and Claude Desktop. For now it only joins Google Meet. Other video platforms are coming soon. Notes and transcripts are included during the beta, and docs and whiteboards made in a call are free through February 10, 2027. Organizations on zero data retention, HIPAA-ready setups or customer-managed encryption keys don't get it yet.
This is not inside Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Webex today, and it is not a finished enterprise meeting product. It is still the clearest sign yet that Anthropic wants Claude to be where work starts, not a helper inside someone else's app.
The Desktop Is the Real Product
Claude Cowork, first previewed in January, can take a task in plain language and finish it across local files, connected apps, Chrome and the desktop itself. Anthropic's IPO filing says it returns finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations and organized folders, with no terminal or code required.
Claude also sits inside PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook as an add-in. Claude for PowerPoint is generally available on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, and can build a deck from a description while staying on a corporate template. Earlier this month, Anthropic added Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, plus connectors into apps such as Adobe and Atlassian.
The call can happen in Google Meet. The plan, the deck and the follow-up can live in Claude.
Ash Gupta, director of financial planning and analysis at Advantage Solutions, put it plainly on Anthropic's product page:
"Our FP&A team used to spend about 10 hours every forecast cycle on slides, commentary, and validation. We automated that assembly work in Claude and brought it down to under 30 minutes."
— Ash Gupta, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Advantage Solutions
The Numbers Behind the Noise
Anthropic's amended S-1, filed November 10, says revenue was $17.0 billion in the three months ended September 30, up from $1.4 billion a year earlier, and $33.2 billion in the first nine months of 2026, up from $2.5 billion. Its run-rate revenue, an annualized operating metric, not a GAAP forecast, was approximately $81 billion as of October 31, up $10 billion in a month.
