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Anthropic Launches Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in Beta

The new tools give customers live, query‑transparent dashboards and code‑driven animations while raising unanswered questions about credentials and semantic layers.

Overview

  • Anthropic released Claude Dashboards in beta, letting users connect live to warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and ClickHouse to build dashboards that update as data changes.
  • Each dashboard item can show the exact query that produced it and a timestamp for the last refresh, and users can ask Claude to explain SQL results in plain language.
  • Dashboards can be exported into established BI services like Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, monday.com, Omni, PostHog, and Sigma and will add Looker, Perplexity, and Tableau support later.
  • Anthropic also launched Claude Motion in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, which creates short animated clips by generating editable code to animate charts and text rather than using a video model.
  • Anthropic added enterprise controls including customer‑managed encryption keys and admin enablement for new features, but it has not clarified whether dashboards use semantic layers or whose credentials fetch live data for shared or public viewers, a gap enterprises must resolve before wide production use.