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Claude Opus 4.7 Has Landed. The AI Acceleration Is Real.

April 17, 2026·22 min
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Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.7 with better vision, better coding and… better everything. And, along with OpenAI's new Codex, AI is accelerating ever faster. This week on AI For Humans, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a major step up from Opus 4.6 with better visual reasoning, improved software coding and even makes presentations for cavemen. Benchmarks put Opus 4.7 between 4.6 and the unreleased Mythos preview, and the new default xhigh reasoning level means more token burn but more reliability on hard problems. The same day, OpenAI updated Codex with better computer use, an integrated browser, and a bunch of new tools.  Then Jensen Huang's epic Dwarkesh Patel interview broke the internet, with Jensen explaining why NVIDIA keeps selling AI chips to China and dropping the instantly iconic "you're not talking to someone who woke up a loser" line.  Plus, Reese Witherspoon is now in on AI, Doug Liman's Killing Satoshi got made for $80M using AI tools (would have cost $300M without them) and we got our first look at AI Val Kilmer. OPUS 4.7 HAS LANDED. CODEX GOT UPGRADED. IT'S ALL HAPPENING Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // Claude Opus 4.7 Official Blog Post https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Claude Opus 4.7 System Card https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/037f06850df7fbe871e206dad004c3db5fd50340.pdf Opus 4.7 Is Better at Presentations https://x.com/nadzi_mouad/status/2044814009040261336?s=20 A4H for Cavemen by Cavemen https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2044822422868865209?s=20 Opus 4.7 Default xhigh Reasoning and Token Burn https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2044802839709372798?s=20 Opus 4.7 Has a New Tokenizer and Base Model https://x.com/natolambert/status/2044788470179332533?s=20 OpenAI Codex Update: Codex for Almost Everything https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/ Reese Witherspoon Is Now in on AI https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/reese-witherspoon-ai-comments-instagram-reel-book-authors-1236566844/ The Jensen Huang Interview With Dwarkesh Patel https://youtu.be/Hrbq66XqtCo?si=NpEzxTuuXreLiNRs Dwarkesh Pushes Jensen on Selling Chips to China https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2044483393941848131?s=20 First Look at AI Val Kilmer https://x.com/Variety/status/2044491101990535460?s=20 Killing Satoshi: Doug Liman's $80M AI-Made Movie https://x.com/TheWrap/status/2044414225158635528?s=20

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