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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 debuts with performance upgrade, rivals OpenAI’s GPT-5.4
Bay Area Times
April 17, 2026
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- Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 debuts with performance upgrades
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- OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind for life sciences, drug discovery
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1. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 debuts with performance upgrade, rivals OpenAI’s GPT-5.4
Claude Opus 4.7 has surpassed GPT-5.4 (xhigh) and Sonnet 4.6 on the GDPval-AA benchmark:
The model can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge, 3x prior Claude models.
Uses an “updated tokenizer” that improves text processing but can map the same input to more tokens, Anthropic said.
It is less advanced in cyber capabilities than Mythos Preview, Anthropic said.
Opus 4.7 costs $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, in line with Opus 4.6, vs. GPT-5.4’s $2.5/$15 (<272K tokens) and GLM-5.1’s $1.4/$4.4.
Additionally, a White House memo said OMB is setting protections to allow agencies to use Anthropic’s Mythos
The memo doesn’t confirm timing or use details.
Coming weeks: tech and cybersecurity chiefs will receive more details, the memo said.
Separately, Anthropic has secured a new London office for 800 staff, days after OpenAI leased its first space in the city.
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3. Codex desktop app updated with computer control, browser, plugin support
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5. OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind for life sciences, drug discovery research
GPT-Rosalind surpassed GPT-5.4 and earlier models on early benchmarks shared by OpenAI:
