Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, a powerful large language model that outperforms key rivals like GPT-5.4 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro in benchmarks such as agentic coding and financial analysis. Opus 4.7 leads the market on the GDPVal-AA knowledge work evaluation with an Elo score of 1753 and introduces new features like high-resolution multimodal support for processing images. The model's increased precision comes with trade-offs in token consumption and latency, prompting the introduction of new control parameters and task budgets in the Claude API to manage costs effectively.