Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7

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- Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, describing it as a "notable improvement" over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and confirming the model is now generally available.
- Claude Opus 4.7 ships with a new "xhigh" effort level, a setting that controls how much compute the model devotes to a given task.
Why it matters: Anthropic is iterating its flagship model with developer-focused gains and a new top-tier effort setting, giving paying users a more compute-intensive option for harder coding jobs — a direct lever on per-query cost and revenue.
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