Claude gets Dashboards and Motion: live dashboards and text-to-video

Anthropic has introduced two new tools for Claude that significantly expand what generative AI can do in data visualization and video content creation. Both products are currently in beta and target different use cases — from building interactive dashboards to producing animated educational materials.

Dashboards: live dashboards from text

The first tool, Dashboards, tackles a core challenge in analytics: turning raw data into visual form without writing code. The feature connects directly to popular data warehouses and processing platforms — BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, and Salesforce.

Users can describe the dashboard they want in plain text, and Dashboards automatically builds a visualization that updates in real time as the underlying data changes. Every number on the dashboard links back to the SQL query behind it, ensuring full transparency and reproducibility of results.

Finished dashboards can be exported and integrated with other analytics platforms: Amplitude, Grafana, and Hex. That means Claude-generated dashboards can slot directly into existing workflows for analysts and engineers. Dashboards is available to paying Claude users, reflecting the computational cost of continuously processing and refreshing data.

Motion: video from text and diagrams

Motion, the second new tool, focuses on generating animated video content. It takes text descriptions, diagrams, and images as input and produces full animated explainer videos suitable for training materials, presentations, and marketing campaigns.

Motion's key feature is that it's code-based. The videos it creates are fully editable as code, allowing for quick changes and rapid iteration. The final result exports to standard MP4, ready for use on any media platform. Motion is available to users on the Team and Enterprise plans.

Tools graduating from beta

Alongside the two new features, Anthropic is moving three previously beta tools — Docs, Slides, and Design — into stable status. All three are now available on every Claude subscription plan, including free accounts.

The Design tool (used for creating graphic content) will be fully integrated into the main Claude app by December 14. The company has prepared a migration guide for users of the standalone Design app.

Scale of adoption and market competition

The popularity of these tools is striking: since launch, users have created more than 45 million documents. That figure points to significant demand for content-creation features within the Claude interface.

Claude's growing usage hasn't gone unnoticed by competitors. Microsoft is reportedly beginning to scale back internal use of Claude in favor of its own AI solutions, such as Copilot. This reflects a broader trend: major tech companies are pushing to rely on their own models rather than on competing solutions. Despite this, Anthropic is continuing to expand Claude's functionality, positioning it as a comprehensive tool for a wide range of tasks — from data analytics to media content creation.