Anthropic Releases Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data, Three AI Office Tools

Zhihui Dongxi news on November 11: Today, Anthropic released multiple AI office tools, including the spreadsheet tool Claude Sheets, the whiteboard tool Claude Whiteboards, and the data analysis tool Claude Data.

Claude Whiteboards is a shared canvas where enterprise teams brainstorm together with Claude. Claude Sheets supports Claude and users jointly building and editing spreadsheets. Claude Data adds features for generating explanations for data, certified queries, and real-time sharing.

In addition, Anthropic upgraded its interactive connectors. Starting today, partners can embed their own applications directly into Claude, and developers can work in products such as Adobe and the enterprise collaboration software Atlassian without switching tabs.

The above new features will roll out gradually starting today. Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data can be used on the web, desktop, and mobile devices, and can be used together with Claude's existing document, PPT, and design diagram generation capabilities, as well as the beta AI animation tool Claude Motion. Claude Data requires data connectors such as a data warehouse or customer relationship management system.

Some netizens made memes joking that Microsoft is now in a dangerous situation.

Another netizen lamented that Claude has put an end to traditional office work. Another netizen felt lucky that they had not studied Office seriously back then.

Another netizen was even more direct, saying, "Did Claude just kill Microsoft?"

As of the U.S. stock market close this morning, Microsoft's stock price had fallen 2.20%, with a market value of $3.96 trillion (about 26.41 trillion yuan).

Just this morning, Claude also announced a free full reset for all Pro, Max, Ultra, and team users, applicable to all models and limits, usable before 6:00 a.m. on December 11.

In Claude Sheets, developers can create spreadsheets together with Claude, collaboratively organize data, create and edit formulas, and also work across multiple worksheets.

Users only need to enter a prompt to create an activity tracking sheet or a recruitment budget sheet, and Claude can generate a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-down menus.

It can also make edits within cells and summarize each new edit, making it easy for users to track changes. All these operations can be shared with the user's team.

At present, this feature only has basic spreadsheet functions. If users need the full functionality of Excel, they can also export files as .xlsx or CSV format and continue working in other collaboration tools.

2. Claude Whiteboards: Brainstorming results directly output as documents and PPTs

Claude Whiteboards is a digital whiteboard tool that users can use to brainstorm and organize ideas with team members during meetings, turning the content of brainstorming into a kanban with timelines, owners, and dates.

For example, in a retrospective meeting, everyone can add their own notes, and Claude will group the notes by topic and draft action items for each person. Users can focus on any area by selecting any part of the kanban and asking Claude questions about it. After brainstorming ends, Claude can also turn the kanban into a document or PPT, or import it into other collaboration tools.

3. Claude Data: Certified data can be shared with one click

Claude Data was launched in beta in October this year and officially launched today.

This feature can create certified metric definitions. Data teams can uniformly certify query statements available to everyone, avoiding data conflicts in the data dashboards that people build and use. Charts generated based on these metrics will carry a "certified" label.

It supports creating narrative content based on data. Users can collaborate with Claude in the Claude Data feature, relying on various metrics to write data interpretation documents or generate narrated videos.

With the data sharing feature, users can synchronize the latest data to everyone in Claude Data. Even if colleagues themselves do not have permission to connect to data source connectors, they can open the shared dashboard and see real-time updated data. Viewers can only see the query results approved by the user and cannot execute other queries.

In addition, this feature also supports designing custom interface styles, accelerating loading with caching, and tracking historical changes.

Its certified query and real-time sharing features are still in the testing stage.

Conclusion: Claude builds its own native workbench, and traditional office work is in danger

As netizens said earlier, Claude's release this time will have a major impact on traditional office tools. Over the past decades, the core of office software has been to carry people's output through documents, spreadsheets, canvases, and other forms. Now the support of AI tools is changing this status quo.

From the current practices of enterprises, two approaches to AI office tools can be seen. OpenAI previously released a series of office tools such as canvas and spreadsheets, and its approach is to use ChatGPT Work as an agent to connect to users' existing Excel, documents, and various business systems. Now the AI office tools released by Claude link thinking, reasoning, collaboration, data queries, business systems, and more, making human-machine collaboration smoother.

Source: Anthropic, X