July 23, 2026

Claude launches two new, smarter models

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Claude launches two powerful new models and adds integrations with desktop apps like Excel and Chrome.

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Claude

The app has a new, smarter version called Claude Opus 4.7 that's much better at following instructions and understanding high-resolution images.

A new version called Claude Opus 4.5 is also available, which is designed to be better at coding and deep research tasks.

You can now use Claude inside other apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Chrome, and there is a new desktop app.

Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

ChatGPT

One of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack , a dramatic ex.

Contact Us Do you have more information about this incident? Or about other AI-enabled cyberattacks? We’d love to hear from you.

In the document introducing its cybersecurity-focused model Mythos , Anthropic wrote that in a test, the model “was provided with a secured ‘sandbox’ computer to interact with,” a.

OpenAI Codex

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Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

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