Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI Codex Goes Full Computer-Use, and the Usual Leadership Churn

Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here, Codex Controls Your Computer, and OpenAI Loses Two Leaders in One Week

TLDR: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with meaningful gains in coding, reasoning, and vision, all at the same price as Opus 4.6. OpenAI simultaneously upgraded Codex to control an entire computer, browse the web, generate images, and run parallel background agents. Meanwhile, OpenAI's product chief Kevin Weil and Sora lead Bill Peebles both exited in the same week.

Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here! Anthropic Just Dropped Its Best Model Yet