Claude Opus 4.7 - A New Frontier, in Performance … and Drama
Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped, but behind every headline lies a deeper story. From a bonanza of benchmarks, to seeing the fruits of one of the biggest mega-projects in US history, to sneaky Mythos disclaimers, to Anthropic admitting compute restraints and, forcing lower capability of Opus 4.7. Where the new model falls behind Gemini but ahead of GPT 5.4, plus why some users are furious at Anthropic. Ending with a 9-year animus, that still affects AI today… https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:58 - Benchmarks 05:21 - Market Share + Compute Problems 08:12 - Mythos Exclusives 12:56 - User Frustration + Claude Code Updates 14:03 - Brockman Amodei Rivalry 17:40 - OpenAI vs Anthropic Approach to Code Claude 4.7 Opus Release Notes: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 vs Mythos: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGCGugrXUAAKcHp?format=jpg&name=medium 232-page System Card: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/037f06850df7fbe871e206dad004c3db5fd50340.pdf ARC-AGI 2: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2044834615417053305/photo/1 ParseBench: https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2044902620746363016/photo/1 GDPVal: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdpval-aa Vidoc Security Replication: https://blog.vidocsecurity.com/blog/we-reproduced-anthropics-mythos-findings-with-public-models Boris Cherny Settings: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2043016923961577516/photo/2 User Frustration: https://x.com/RileyRalmuto/status/2044836116189069660 VibeCode Bench: https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2044791415524471099/photo/1 Verge Memo: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/911118/openai-memo-cro-ai-competition-anthropic 5.4 Cyber: https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense/ Data Centers in Absolute $: https://x.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794/photo/1 …in % of GDP: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGEN8FGWQAAN7Np?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 WSJ Exclusive: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-decadelong-feud-shaping-the-future-of-ai-7075acde Brockman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vYvk7R190 $1T Valuation: https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/2045039686997967082 Emotions: https://www.patreon.com/c/aiexplained/posts https://lmcouncil.ai/benchmarks Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
