Anthropic launches Claude Sheets to challenge Excel and Google Sheets

Anthropic has launched Claude Sheets in beta, a tool that creates interactive spreadsheets with working formulas and tabs directly within its conversational AI interface, challenging Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Claude Sheets generates functional spreadsheets from prompts, highlights edited cells for audit, and exports to Excel or CSV formats. It launches alongside Claude Whiteboards for brainstorming and Claude Data for enterprise database connections. The tools are available on paid Claude plans with admin controls for enterprise compliance. This integration removes the need to copy-paste AI-generated tables into external programs, streamlining collaborative data work.