Claude can now build live dashboards and editable animations

What is changing?

Anthropic announced Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta on October 8. Dashboards connects to data platforms including BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, and ClickHouse, as well as connectors such as Salesforce, to build a dashboard that stays current from a natural-language question. Each chart exposes its query and last refresh time.

Claude Motion turns reports, charts, text, shapes, and images into a short animation. The result can be edited in the canvas or through conversation and downloaded as an MP4. Anthropic says Motion does not use a video-generation model; it animates the user's content as editable code and adds no AI-generated footage or people.

Dashboards is in beta on paid plans, while Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Enterprise administrators enable both features in Artifacts settings. Docs, Slides, and Design have now left beta and are available on every Claude plan, including Free.

Anthropic also says Motion outputs can be opened in Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI, and Runway, while dashboards can move into analysis tools such as Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog, and Sigma. These handoffs position Claude as an upstream layer in a broader production workflow rather than the only finishing tool.