Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI model that is less risky than Mythos

Cnbc · Apr 16, 2026 · 372 words · By Ashley Capoot

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What to know about Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI model that is less risky than Mythos

Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is "less broadly capable" than its most recent offering, Claude Mythos Preview.

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Claude Opus 4.7 is better at software engineering, following instructions, completing real-world work and is its most powerful generally available model, Anthropic said.

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But the model's cyber capabilities are not as advanced as Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month.

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Claim 1: “The new model is the same price as Claude Opus 4.6”

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Claim 2: “The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February”

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Multiple sources refer to Opus 4.7 as an improvement over its predecessor, Opus 4.6, and one source specifically compares the two, implying the existence and prior release of 4.6.

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web search NEUTRAL — Compare Claude Opus 4.7 vs Opus 4.6 on benchmarks, pricing, behavior, and coding performance to see if the upgrade is worth it.
https://emergent.sh/learn/claude-opus-4-7-vs-opus-4-6

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web search 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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web search NEUTRAL — Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

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Claim 3: “Claude Opus 4.7 is available across all of Anthropic's Claude products, its application programming interface and through cloud providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon”

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Claim 4: “Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7”

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Multiple independent sources, including an official Anthropic announcement and Neowin, confirm the announcement of Claude Opus 4.7.

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Opus 4.7 is the most capable model we've tested at Quantium. Evaluated against leading AI models through our proprietary benchmarking solution, the biggest gains showed up where they matter mos…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Opus 47. Anthropic today announced its latest flagship model, Opus 4.7.Alongside Opus 4.7, Anthropic today also announced a new /ultrareview slash command in Claude Code. It creates a dedicated…
https://www.neowin.net/news/anthropic-announces-claude-opus-…

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Claim 5: “the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases, including industry benchmarks for agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use and agentic computer use”

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Claim 6: “Claude Opus 4.7... is "less broadly capable" than its most recent offering, Claude Mythos Preview”

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Three independent web sources, including the official Anthropic announcement, explicitly state that Claude Opus 4.7 is 'less broadly capable' than Claude Mythos Preview.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as a AI chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software development. Cl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5.5 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 5.5) is a large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI on April 23, 2026. The model is also known by its codename "Spud". OpenAI reported GPT-5.5 benchmark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.5

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) (MEE-tər), is a nonprofit research institute, based in Berkeley, California, that evaluates frontier AI models' capabilities to carry out long-horizon, agen…
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Claim 7: “The launch of Project Glasswing has sparked a number of high-profile meetings between members of the Trump administration, tech CEOs and bank chief executives”

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The web search results for this claim returned irrelevant information about rocket launches and credit unions; no evidence regarding Project Glasswing or meetings with the Trump administration was found.

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web search NEUTRAL — 1 hour ago · AI-powered rocket launch tracker. Live countdowns, AI-generated briefings, launch maps, weather, visibility scoring, and real-time status updates for every launch worldwide.
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Claim 8: “the model's cyber capabilities are not as advanced as Claude Mythos Preview”

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Web sources explicitly state that cybersecurity capabilities were intentionally reduced relative to Claude Mythos Preview.

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Claim 9: “Claude Opus 4.7 is better at software engineering, following instructions, completing real-world work and is its most powerful generally available model”

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Multiple sources, including the official Anthropic site and other reports, confirm Opus 4.7 is the most powerful generally available model and shows improvements in software engineering and instruction following.

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web search NEUTRAL — Working with Claude Opus 4.7. A practical guide to the newest version of Claude's most capable generally available model class.
https://claude.com/resources/tutorials/working-with-claude-o…

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic’s most capable generally available model, with notable improvements over its predecessor Opus 4.6 in software engineering, instruction following, and vision — but it is in…
https://maverickstudios.net/2026/04/17/anthropic-just-launch…

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Claim 10: “Since its founding in 2021, Anthropic has spent years carefully crafting its reputation”

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Wikipedia and multiple cross-references (CNBC, EuroNews) confirm that Anthropic was founded in 2021.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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Claim 11: “Anthropic does not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general company descriptions and does not explicitly confirm or deny the plan for the general availability of Claude Mythos Preview.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. [7] .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
https://claude.com/product/overview

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Claim 12: “Anthropic rolled out [Claude Mythos Preview] to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month”

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While the evidence mentions Claude Mythos Preview, there is no mention of 'Project Glasswing' or the specific rollout to a select group of companies in the provided search results.

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