Anthropic adds Claude Sheets and a call assistant, taking on its backers

Anthropic is adding Claude Sheets, a video call assistant and a data dashboard tool to Claude, many in beta for paid users, Bloomberg reported. The tools compete with backers Microsoft and Google. Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot can also put their apps inside Claude.

Anthropic is adding a spreadsheet, a video call assistant and other office tools to Claude, putting it in closer competition with two of its backers, Microsoft and Google, Bloomberg reported. Many of the tools are in beta for paid users.

The spreadsheet, Claude Sheets, closely resembles Excel and Google Sheets but has Claude built in. The launch also includes a data dashboard tool. It follows Claude Docs and Slides, which arrived in September.

Nicholas Lin, an Anthropic product leader, called Sheets “fairly basic” for now and said it is not meant for work such as financial modelling. For that, Anthropic’s add-ins for existing apps, like Claude for Word, work better, he said.

“I think there’s a time and place for these Microsoft and Google products, especially for more advanced enterprise use cases,” Lin said. “But we’re hoping to show new ways of working inside Claude as well.”

Anthropic also unveiled a way for companies such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot to put versions of their apps inside Claude, as Canva did in April. Fears that Claude could replace such software have hit software stocks several times this year.

The tools arrive as Anthropic prepares to list on Nasdaq later this month. Its revenue run rate reached $81B on 31 October, up $10B in a month, according to a filing on Tuesday. In July, it had passed $65B.