Core Progress
Claude Opus 4.7 was officially released on April 16, 2026, becoming Anthropic’s most powerful model to date. Alongside it, Claude Sonnet 4.6 was launched, focusing on cost-performance ratio and being called the “King of Value.”
Technical Details
- Programming Ability: 44 percentage points improvement over previous generation (+44pp)
- Vision Capability: 3x improvement, supporting more powerful multimodal understanding
- SWE-bench Score: Achieving 87.6% remarkable results
- Context Window: Maintaining 200K tokens super large context
Market Impact
The release of Claude 4 series has caused industry shock:
- Dubbed “The Intelligence Decrease Incident” – some users reported the new model performs below expectations in certain scenarios
- Third-party tools suspending services – some tools relying on Anthropic API paused their services
- Intensifying AI model competition – competitors like GPT-5 and Gemini 2 face greater pressure
Future Trends
Anthropic has revealed its rapid iteration strategy: major version updates every 2 months. This means AI model evolution is accelerating at an unprecedented pace.
Claude 4 series marks AI model competition entering a new phase – not only fighting for performance, but also for iteration speed and ecosystem building.
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