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

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Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of external enterprise partners for cybersecurity testing and patching vulnerabilities in the software said enterprises use (which Mythos exposed rapidly).The big headlines are that Opus 4.7 exceeds its most direct rivals — OpenAI's GPT-5.4, released in early March 2026, scarcely more than a month ago; and Google's latest flagship model Gemini 3.1 Pro from February — on key benchmarks including agentic coding, scaled tool-use, agentic computer use, and financial analysis..

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But also, it's notable how tight the race is getting: on directly comparable benchmarks, Opus 4.7 only leads GPT-5.4 by 7-4.It currently leads the market on the GDPVal-AA knowledge work evaluation with an Elo score of 1753, surpassing both GPT-5.4 (1674) and Gemini 3.1 Pro (1314)..

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Yet, the model does not represent a "clean sweep" across all categories..

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Competitors like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro still hold the lead in specific domains such as agentic search, where GPT-5.4 scores 89.3% compared to Opus 4.7’s 79.3%, as well as in multilingual Q&A and raw terminal-based coding..

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