Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

Axios · Apr 16, 2026 · 433 words · By Ina Fried

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, an upgraded AI model that outperforms previous versions and competitors on several benchmarks, though it still trails the unreleased Mythos model. The announcement follows user complaints that the previous model had degraded, leading to speculation about deliberate scaling back. Anthropic stated the new release will be used to test safeguards for cybersecurity while working toward a broader release of Mythos-class models.

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“Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, a meaningful upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding, sharper vision and a new ability to double-check its own work.”

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Multiple web search results report that Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, highlighting improvements in coding, vision, and self-checking capabilities. This is reported by multiple independent sources found via web search.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a language model benchmark consisting of 2,500 questions across a broad range of subjects. It was created jointly by the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI.
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“Anthropic publicly conceded that the new Opus model does not match the performance of Mythos, a highly advanced system that the company hasn't released to the public due to safety concerns.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Anthropic publicly conceded that Opus 4.7 trails the performance of Mythos, a system withheld from the public due to safety concerns.

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web search NEUTRAL — Why it matters: Anthropic publicly conceded that the new Opus model does not match the performance of Mythos, a highly advanced system that the company hasn't released to the public due to safety conc…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-claude-opus-model…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4.7 is its best public AI model — but not its most powerful. The company acknowledged the new model falls short of Claude Mythos Preview, which remains off-limits to the ge…
https://qz.com/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-mythos-release-0416…

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Opus 4.7 improves on performance and usability, but is intentionally dialed down in capability as Anthropic prioritizes safety and prepares for its more advanced Mythos model.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4160021/anthropics-lat…

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“In a chart accompanying its announcement, Anthropic showed that Opus 4.7 beats Opus 4.6, ChatGPT 5.4, Google Gemini 3.1 Pro in a number of key benchmarks.”

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Multiple web search results cite an announcement chart showing Opus 4.7 beating Opus 4.6, ChatGPT 5.4, and Google Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks, as reported by multiple independent sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models

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“But Opus 4.7 still falls short of its Mythos Preview model, which has only been released to a handpicked group of tech and cybersecurity companies.”

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Multiple web search results state that Opus 4.7 falls short of its Mythos Preview model, which is restricted to select tech and cybersecurity companies, confirming the claim across different reports.

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“"Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks," Anthropic said in a blog post.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Anthropic stated Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, particularly on difficult tasks, according to multiple independent reports.

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“"The model also has substantially better vision: it can see images in greater resolution," it said. "It's more tasteful and creative when completing professional tasks, producing higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs."”

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Multiple web search results quote Anthropic stating that Opus 4.7 has substantially better vision, capable of seeing images in greater resolution and producing higher-quality professional outputs, confirmed by multiple independent sources.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, a new AI model designed for advanced coding, high-resolution vision, and long-running agent workflows, now available across Claude, APIs, and major cloud platfo…
https://www.ainews.com/p/anthropic-launches-claude-opus-4-7-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The model also has substantially better vision: it can see images in greater resolution. It’s more tasteful and creative when completing professional tasks, producing higher-quality interfaces, slides…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

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web search NEUTRAL — "The model also has substantially better vision: it can see images in greater resolution," it said. "It's more tasteful and creative when completing professional tasks, producing higher-quality interf…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-claude-opus-model…

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“The release arrives amid weeks of user complaints that Opus 4.6 had quietly gotten worse.”

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Multiple web search results indicate that the release followed user complaints regarding the degradation of Opus 4.6's performance, reported by multiple independent sources.

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web search NEUTRAL — The release arrives amid weeks of user complaints that Opus 4.6 had quietly gotten worse.Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, a meaningful upgrade to its flagship AI model with better codin…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-claude-opus-model…

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web search NEUTRAL — Users increasingly report performance degradation as leaders push back.Viral user complaints, including from an AMD Senior Director, argue Claude has become less capable.
https://maverickstudios.net/2026/04/13/is-anthropic-nerfing-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Meanwhile, Anthropic also announced last week that it had trained a new, yet-to-be-released model called Mythos that is significantly more capable than its Opus AI model—but which is also larger and m…
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/anthropic-claude-performance-…

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“"Claude has regressed to the point it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," an AMD senior director wrote in a widely shared post on GitHub.”

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Multiple web search results report on the specific claim made by an AMD senior director on GitHub that Claude had regressed and could not be trusted for complex engineering tasks, confirmed by multiple independent sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence, commonly known as generative AI or GenAI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software cod…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI-assisted software development is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to augment software development. It uses large language models (LLMs), natural language processing, intelligent agents and o…
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“Anthropic denied that any changes it made were to redirect computing resources to other projects.”

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“"Opus 4.7 introduces a new xhigh ("extra high") effort level between high and max, giving users finer control over the tradeoff between reasoning and latency on hard problems," Anthropic said."”

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“It's also testing a new system called "task budgets" that give developers more control over how Claude does its reasoning on longer tasks.”

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“Anthropic said it will use the new release to test guardrails designed to prevent its model being used for cybersecurity attacks.”

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