[AINews] Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 - literally one step better than 4.6 in every dimension โ
Anthropic officially released Claude Opus 4.7 as its newest top-tier model, positioning it as superior to Opus 4.6 for long-running tasks, coding, and computer use while maintaining $5/$25 per million token pricing. The model features a new tokenizer, support for images up to 2,576 pixels (~3.75 megapixels), a new xhigh reasoning effort tier, and reported benchmark gains including 64.3% on SWE-Bench Pro (+11 points) and 87.6% on SWE-Bench Verified (+7 points). Independent evaluations showed mixed results on document understanding tasks, with significant improvements on charts but higher costs per page compared to specialized alternatives.
it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than three times as many as prior Claude models
the overall reasoning efficiency has improved so much that overall token use is STILL down by up to 50% of their former equivalents