Anthropic Launches Claude Sheets and Whiteboards, Targeting Office
Anthropic is rolling out Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, plus Claude Data, pushing its assistant further into Microsoft Office's territory.
SUMO· the number puzzle
Dialo· learn languages by speaking
ediviewer· read EDI files like documents
giftdetect· the right gift in minutesAnthropic began rolling out Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data on Tuesday, November 10. The move takes the company beyond supplying AI models and into direct competition with Microsoft Office, which relies on Claude inside Copilot.
Claude Sheets lets users build a spreadsheet collaboratively with AI help, including tabs and formulas. Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for structuring a meeting on the fly, after which the assistant produces a clean summary. Both are in beta, limited to paid plans from Pro (20 dollars a month before tax in the US), and work on the web, desktop and mobile. They are enabled by default on Team plans and off on Enterprise until an administrator switches them on.
Data dashboards and what is coming
The former Dashboards module, launched in October, is now called Claude Data and leaves beta. Its dashboards connect to tools such as Snowflake or Salesforce, and Claude Data adds data stories, narrated videos and sharing of up-to-date figures with colleagues. Interactive connectors also let users operate third-party tools from Adobe or Atlassian inside the conversation. Anthropic also announced Claude Meetings, an agent that joins video calls, takes notes and updates team documents, promised "soon" with no date.
A reversed approach
Microsoft starts from Office and adds an AI layer; Anthropic starts from the chat, and documents are exported afterwards, as Word, PowerPoint, PDF, .xlsx or CSV. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business costs 18.20 euros per employee per month on top of an Office licence, while Claude Team starts at 20 dollars per seat on annual billing, with no equivalent to Outlook, Teams or SharePoint.
Anthropic admits Claude Sheets covers only basic spreadsheet functions for now and points to exports or its Claude for Excel add-in for more demanding work. It cites internal results: its legal team cut marketing review from three days to 24 hours, and customer Advantage Solutions says forecast-cycle preparation dropped from about 10 hours to under 30 minutes.
Microsoft shares fell 3% on Tuesday, according to CNBC.
Apps worth a look
SUMO: the number puzzleTap the right tiles, add them up, hit the target. Easy to learn, hard to master. Free, for all ages.
Dialo: learn languages by speakingTalk to an AI conversation partner; every sentence comes back corrected and explained in your language. 9 languages, A1 to C2.
ediviewer: read EDI files like documentsOpen EDIFACT and X12 messages, see every segment explained, convert to JSON/XML, export PDF and Excel. Runs locally, no upload.
giftdetect: the right gift in minutesPick who it is for, the occasion and their personality. The search engine reads product descriptions from local shops and ranks what fits. Free, no sign-up.
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