FrontierThe story, in brief
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with coding, visual reasoning improvements
64.3%. That's Claude Opus 4.7's new SWE-Bench Pro score—nearly 10 points ahead of its predecessor.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Anthropic is systematically closing the coding capability gap with each Claude release. For founders building with LLMs, this shifts the calculus on model selection for software engineering workflows.
The key facts
4 to knowClaude Opus 4.7 launched with improved coding and visual reasoning
SWE-Bench Pro score: 64.3% (vs. Opus 4.6's ~54.3%)
~10 percentage point improvement over predecessor on programming benchmarks
Published April 16, 2026
Go to the source
SiliconAnglesiliconangle.com
Publisher excerpt: Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at coding tasks. Opus 4.7 scored 64.3% on the SWE-Bench Pro programming benchmark, nearly 10% higher…