Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7 Model with New Features

AI Impact Summary

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.7, their most capable model to date, with significant improvements in vision, coding, and computer use. This release includes new features like programmatic tool calling, tool search, and the effort parameter, now generally available. The company is also deprecating older models like Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, alongside the 1M token context window, requiring users to migrate to newer versions (Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6) to avoid service disruption. This represents a major capability update with associated migration requirements.