… You can give Claude Opus 4.8 a spin right now, so be sure to try it out and see how it improves your workflow. And I suppose I'll see you again next month when Anthropic inevitably releases Opus 4.9 then. …
… The company states that you can give this new model a try right now; sure enough, several members of the XDA team report that they can select the model on the Claude website, which sports the description "Most capable for ambitious work." If you want an idea of how fast the world of AI is moving, j… …
… Just in the past few days alone, the company launched Claude Design, routines in Claude Code, Claude for Word, Managed Agents, released Cowork generally and the list goes on. For many, the most anticipated release in the entire wave was Anthropic's newest flagship model, Opus 4.7 . …
… The vision upgrade is probably the most underrated part of the Opus 4.7 release for anyone who isn't a developer. Prior Claude models processed images at around 1.15 megapixels - Opus 4.7 handles up to 3.75, which is more than three times the resolution. …
… Related Claude Opus 4.7 was just released last month, and 4.8 is already here with some massive improvements I'm getting deja vu here. …
… Related Claude Opus 4.7 was just released last month, and 4.8 is already here with some massive improvements I'm getting deja vu here. Claude still gets the heavy stuff So a few months in, I think this combo is doing what I needed it to. …
… I set both up in the Pi harness, ran the same coding test I'd already used against Claude Opus 4.6 as my baseline, and threw Qwen3-Coder-Next into the mix on my ThinkStation PGX as a local reference point. I used Opus 4.6 here because, at the time of testing, Opus 4.7 hadn’t been released yet. …
… To me, design is the other big one, and this is where not just cloud, but Claude specifically, won me over. Claude has inline visuals, Artifacts, and now Claude Design a workspace built specifically for prototypes, slides, and UI mockups, powered by Opus 4.7 . …
… To give you an idea of just how much cheaper it is, here are the costs for Anthropic's newly-released Claude Opus 4.7: Model Base Input Tokens 5m Cache Writes 1h Cache Writes Cache Hits & Refreshes Output Tokens Claude Opus 4.7 $5 / MTok $6.25 / MTok $10 / MTok $0.50 / MTok $25 / MTok In other word… …
… To some degree, that makes it feel similar to how fast Opus is on Claude Code, since the cloud model pauses to 'think' before answering. Related I finally found a local LLM I actually want to use for coding Qwen3-Coder-Next is a great model, and it's even better with Claude Code as a harness. …
