Previous generally available Opus release retained for compatibility after the Claude Opus 4.8 launch. Still strong for advanced software engineering, long-running task reliability, self-verification, and high-resolution vision, but superseded by Opus 4.8 for Anthropic's latest Opus-tier performance.
Model updates refreshed33m agoJul 28, 2026news + changelog
Still strong for advanced software engineering, long-running task reliability, self-verification, and high-resolution vision, but superseded by Opus 4.8 for Anthropic's latest Opus-tier performance.
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LaunchesAnthropic5d ago
The Claude Security plugin for Claude Code is now available in beta. Scan your changes for vulnerabilities before you commit, or run a full scan across your codebase, all from your terminal on the Cla
The Claude Security plugin for Claude Code is now available in beta. Scan your changes for vulnerabilities before you commit, or run a full scan across your codebase, all from your terminal on the Claude inference you already run. https://t.co/tEM7Tz7f1o
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on t
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day. https://t.co/2BgBGtgYGX
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. Yo
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision. https://t.co/PtlRdpQcG5
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Product Apr 16, 2026 Our latest Opus model brings stronger performance across coding, agents, vision, and multi-step tasks, with greater thoroughness and consistency on the work that matters most.
X/Twitter@claudeaiAnthropicannouncementgeneral4d ago
Voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and reaches the tools you've connected mid-conversation. Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages. https://t.co/k0CWAGjLdK
The Claude Security plugin for Claude Code is now available in beta. Scan your changes for vulnerabilities before you commit, or run a full scan across your codebase, all from your terminal on the Cla
The Claude Security plugin for Claude Code is now available in beta. Scan your changes for vulnerabilities before you commit, or run a full scan across your codebase, all from your terminal on the Claude inference you already run. https://t.co/tEM7Tz7f1o
X/Twitter@claudeaiAnthropicannouncementgeneral5d ago
You can now ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index, our public dataset measuring how AI is used across the economy. Ask which occupations use AI the most, or what kinds of tasks people are auto
You can now ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index, our public dataset measuring how AI is used across the economy. Ask which occupations use AI the most, or what kinds of tasks people are automating, and the answers draw directly from the Index data. https://t.co/21DKJTJmrz
X/Twitter@claudeaiAnthropicannouncementgeneral1w ago
New in Claude Cowork: teach Claude a skill. Record your screen while you do a task, talk through it as you go, and Claude turns it into a skill it can run again. Find it under Record a skill in the +
New in Claude Cowork: teach Claude a skill. Record your screen while you do a task, talk through it as you go, and Claude turns it into a skill it can run again. Find it under Record a skill in the + menu of the Claude desktop app. Available on Pro, Max, and Team plans. https://t.co/9OgJLOKWzj
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on t
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day. https://t.co/2BgBGtgYGX
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. Yo
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision. https://t.co/PtlRdpQcG5
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Product Apr 16, 2026 Our latest Opus model brings stronger performance across coding, agents, vision, and multi-step tasks, with greater thoroughness and consistency on the work that matters most.
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench: A Multi-Domain Coding-Agent Benchmark with Contamination-Resistant Task Construction
We introduce Tencent WorkBuddy Bench, a multi-domain evaluation suite for coding agents; this report documents its construction methodology, scoring protocol, and a cross-model leaderboard. At its core is a unified evaluation framework for constructing and running distribution-informed coding-agent tasks across four work domains - Code, Web, Office, and Security. Rather than adapting public issue text, every task is reverse-engineered from a real commit, pull request, or business scenario and rewritten as a short, colloquial, role-played request, so that a task's prompt is not recoverable by web-searching the underlying issue, pull request, or commit thread. Because the dataset is released openly - task directories, environment images, evaluation harness, tests, and reference solutions - contamination resistance rests on this construction together with dataset versioning rather than on secrecy. The four subsets - repository-level engineering, front-end development, office and business workflows, and red-/blue-team security - probe complementary facets of real work, each with its own verification style. All are packaged in a uniform task-directory format and run, under a uniform and reproducible protocol, on two agent harnesses (CodeBuddy Code and Claude Code); the full open release makes the benchmark reproducible end to end and directly auditable, since any third party can re-run each task and inspect its content. Because each subset uses a different scoring instrument, scores are not comparable across subsets and the suite reports no suite-wide average. We report a cross-model leaderboard across several model families.
IntentGrasp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Intent Understanding
Accurately understanding the intent behind speech, conversation, and writing is crucial to the development of helpful Large Language Model (LLM) assistants. This paper introduces IntentGrasp, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the intent understanding capability of LLMs. Derived from 49 high-quality, open-licensed corpora spanning 12 diverse domains, IntentGrasp is constructed through source datasets curation, intent label contextualization, and task format unification. IntentGrasp contains a large-scale training set of 262,759 instances and two evaluation sets: an All Set of 12,909 test cases and a more balanced and challenging Gem Set of 470 cases. Extensive evaluations on 20 LLMs across 7 families (including frontier models such as GPT-5.4, Gemini-3.1-Pro, and Claude-Opus-4.7) demonstrate unsatisfactory performance, with scores below 60% on All Set and below 25% on Gem set. Notably, 17 out of 20 tested models perform worse than a random-guess baseline (15.2%) on Gem Set, while the estimated human performance is ~81.1%, showing substantial room for improvement. To enhance such ability, this paper proposes Intentional Fine-Tuning (IFT), which fine-tunes the models on the training set in IntentGrasp, yielding significant gains of 30+ F1 points on All Set and 20+ points on Gem Set. Tellingly, the leave-one-domain-out (Lodo) experiments further demonstrate the strong cross-domain generalizability of IFT, verifying that it is a promising approach to substantially enhancing the intent understanding of LLMs. Overall, by benchmarking and boosting intent understanding ability, this study sheds light on a promising path towards more intentional, capable, and safe AI assistants for human benefits and social good.
Users report being able to hand off their hardest coding work—the kind that previously needed close supervision—to Opus 4.7 with confidence. And—although it is less broadly capable than our most powerful model, Claude Mythos Preview—it shows better results than Opus 4.6 across a range of benchmarks: Last week we announced Project Glasswing , highlighting the risks—and benefits—of AI models for cybersecurity. Clarence Huang VP of Technology Anthropic has already set the standa