Anthropic launches Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data to challenge Office apps

Starting to roll out today: Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data. Think a plan through on a board, build a tracker in a sheet, and tell a story with your data.

Satya and Dario the next time they see each other after Microsoft agreed to put $1B into Anthropic’s IPO only to see Claude launch a suite of products (Whiteboards, Sheets, Data) aimed directly at Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Anthropic rolled out Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, adding shared spreadsheets and dashboards inside Claude as it pushes deeper into office software. Bloomberg says Microsoft shares fell more than 3.5% after the announcement.

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic just launched Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data, and Microsoft stock fell more than 2%. • Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta on all paid plans, and teams can edit them together with Claude • Sheets can build a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas and drop-downs, often from 1 prompt, and export it to Excel or CSV • Claude Data connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and Salesforce, and can turn results into dashboards or narrated videos • Interactive connectors let you edit Confluence pages, compare Box revisions, or build Notion databases without leaving Claude • Anthropic also previewed Claude Meetings, which joins video calls and answers questions in the chat • Earlier Anthropic enterprise launches this year sent Salesforce, ServiceNow and Intuit shares…