Matt Wolfe breaks down Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, the new flagship model. Agentic coding performance jumped to 64.3% from Opus 4.6's 53.4%. It also handles instructions better, understands images more accurately, and remembers context longer, making it worth switching to for coding work.
If you are a coder, you now have a new best top-of-the-line model that you can be using. Claude Opus 4.7, the brand new model out of Anthropic. Where the biggest leaps seem to be is in agentic coding. Opus 4.6, 53.4%. Mythos Preview, 77.8%, a pretty huge leap. And this version they gave us this week, Opus 4.7, it kind of split right down the middle at 64.3%. It is substantially better at following instructions. It's got improved multimodal support, so better at understanding images and things like that. And it's better with the memory here. If you're just like an everyday Claude user, you might notice the difference in instruction following. The way I sort of heard it described was the older models, you had to sort of prompt engineer them a little bit better. You had to be very precise with your prompts. When I write code using Cursor or Claude Code or one of those tools, I'm going to be using Opus 4.7 now because it is clearly the best model at coding according to the benchmarks.
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