Anthropic launches Opus 4.7 and Claude Design

Anthropic disclosed in April that it had released Claude Opus 4.7 and launched Claude Design, a new product aimed at generating visual work inside Claude. The company’s help center says Opus 4.7 became generally available on April 16, 2026, and that Claude Design launched on April 17, 2026. Anthropic describes Claude Design as an Anthropic Labs product for making designs, prototypes, slides and one-pagers, while a separate company post says the tool is powered by Opus 4.7. The rollout adds a visual-production layer to Anthropic’s Claude product line alongside a model release the company is positioning around software engineering and vision improvements. ### When did Anthropic actually release these products? Anthropic’s public dates are April 16 for Claude Opus 4.7 and April 17 for Claude Design, according to the company’s release notes and product posts. That matters because some secondary references have pointed to May 21, but the primary Anthropic pages currently show the April publication dates. (support.claude.com) The help center entry for Opus 4.7 says the model is “now generally available,” and the Claude Design entry appears immediately after it in the April 2026 release notes. Anthropic’s newsroom post for Claude Design carries the same April 17 date. ### What is Claude Design supposed to do? Claude Design is described by Anthropic as a product that lets users “collaborate with Claude” to create polished visual work. (support.claude.com) The company lists designs, interactive prototypes, presentations, slides and one-pagers among the outputs it can generate. Anthropic says the product comes from Anthropic Labs and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers. (support.claude.com) The help center’s getting-started guide says users can create a project, iterate on designs and work through the tool conversationally. ### What did Anthropic say changed in Opus 4.7? (anthropic.com) Anthropic said Opus 4.7 improves on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, especially on harder coding tasks. The company’s release notes also say the model shows improvements on “complex and long-running coding tasks” and has stronger vision capabilities, including the ability to see higher-resolution images. (anthropic.com) Anthropic’s model page says Opus 4.7 resolves “3x more production tasks than Opus 4.6” on Rakuten-SWE-Bench and is available through the Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic lists pricing starting at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. ### How closely are the two launches tied together? (anthropic.com) Anthropic’s own materials link the launches directly. The help center says, “With Opus 4.7, we also launched Claude Design,” and the Claude Design announcement says the product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7. That pairing suggests Anthropic is using the model upgrade not only for coding and API customers but also for a higher-level product aimed at visual outputs. (anthropic.com) Anthropic does not frame Claude Design as a standalone model; it presents it as a product layer built on top of Opus 4.7. ### Where can users find it now? (support.claude.com) Anthropic says Claude Design is in research preview for paid Claude tiers including Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. The company’s help center includes a setup guide under Claude features and capabilities. Opus 4.7, meanwhile, is generally available through Anthropic’s platform and via the model name “claude-opus-4-7” in the Claude API, according to Anthropic’s product pages. (support.claude.com) Anthropic also says developers can access it through Bedrock, Vertex AI and Foundry. (anthropic.com 1) (anthropic.com 2)