Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.
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Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable” than its most recent offering, Claude Mythos Preview.
Claude Opus 4.7 is better at software engineering, following instructions, completing real-world work and is its most powerful generally available model, Anthropic said. But the model’s cyber capabilities are not as advanced as Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month.
“We are releasing Opus 4.7 with safeguards that automatically detect and block requests that indicate prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses,” Anthropic said in a release. “What we learn from the real-world deployment of these safeguards will help us work towards our eventual goal of a broad release of Mythos-class models.”
Since its founding in 2021, Anthropic has spent years carefully crafting its reputation as a firm that’s more dedicated to safe and responsible AI deployment than rivals like OpenAI.
The launch of Project Glasswing has sparked a number of high-profile meetings between members of the Trump administration, tech CEOs and bank CEOs about the security risks of powerful AI models.
Anthropic does not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available, but the company has said its goal is to learn how it could eventually deploy Mythos-class models at scale.
The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February. Anthropic said the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases, including industry benchmarks for agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use and agentic computer use, according to a release.
Anthropic said it experimented with efforts to “differentially reduce” Claude Opus 4.7’s cyber capabilities during training.
The company encouraged security professionals who are interested in using the model for “legitimate cybersecurity purposes” to apply through a formal verification program.
Claude Opus 4.7 is available across all of Anthropic’s Claude products, its application programming interface and through cloud providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The new model is the same price as Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic said.
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