Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz | The Verge

AINewsAnthropicAnthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzzBut Opus 4.7 got worse results than Mythos Preview on every evaluation.But Opus 4.7 got worse results than Mythos Preview on every evaluation.by Hayden FieldApr 16, 2026, 3:59 PM UTCLinkShareGiftHayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.Anthropic has released its most powerful “generally available” model to date: Claude Opus 4.7.The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It’s also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it can exhibit more “creativity” when creating slides and documents, per Anthropic.Opus 4.7 comes on the heels of Mythos Preview, the buzzy cybersecurity-focused model Anthropic announced earlier this month, which the company has said is its most powerful model overall. Comparatively, Opus 4.7 is much more limited. In Opus 4.7’s system card, Anthropic wrote that Opus 4.7 doesn’t even advance the company’s “capability frontier,” since Claude Mythos Preview received higher results “on every relevant evaluation.”For security reasons, Anthropic is only currently making Mythos Preview available privately to select partners, such as Nvidia, JPMorgan Chase, Google, Apple, and Microsoft. “We stated...