Claude gets Design tab and Opus 4.7 model with vision upgrades
Anthropic launched Opus 4.7 with improved vision and reasoning efficiency, plus a new Design tab in Claude offering a canvas-like interface for wireframing and high-fidelity prototyping.
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Developers and designers can now use Claude's Design tab to go from image or prompt to high-fidelity prototype in one session, while Opus 4.7's `xhigh` reasoning mode offers a new performance tier for vision-heavy and complex coding tasks.
- 01Opus 4.7 launches with improved vision capabilities and more efficient reasoning token usage.
- 02A new `xhigh` thinking level is added between the existing 'high' and 'max' settings.
- 03Claude's new Design tab offers a canvas-like interface for wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes, guided by a 5–10 question interactive form.
Anthropic shipped two notable updates: Opus 4.7 and a Design tab for Claude. Opus 4.7 brings improved vision capabilities and more efficient use of reasoning tokens, and introduces a new `xhigh` thinking level positioned between the existing "high" and "max" settings. The article notes that despite negative sentiment on Twitter characterizing 4.7 as a regression, the author used it over the weekend at `xhigh` without issues.
The new Design tab adds a canvas-like interface with a chat sidebar, aimed at wireframing and high-fidelity prototyping.
The new Design tab adds a canvas-like interface with a chat sidebar, aimed at wireframing and high-fidelity prototyping. It walks users through an interactive 5–10 question form before building, and the article highlights the image-to-design workflow in prototype mode as particularly strong. The feature is in research preview with separate limits, and on the $20 plan users can expect weekly limits to cover only 2–3 large generations.
Codex also received several updates: Computer Use now lets it control apps on a Mac while running in the background; Chronicle is an opt-in preview that builds memories from recent screen context; and new plugins including image generation were added. Other items in the roundup include Factory AI's $150M raise at a $1.5B valuation, Google AI Pro/Ultra subscriptions gaining access to AI Studio with higher rate limits, and Zapier's AutomationBench benchmark showing no model has yet crossed 10% on real-world automation tasks like CRM updates and multi-step tool chains.
Key facts
- 01Opus 4.7 launches with improved vision capabilities and more efficient reasoning token usage.
- 02A new `xhigh` thinking level is added between the existing 'high' and 'max' settings.
- 03Claude's new Design tab offers a canvas-like interface for wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes, guided by a 5–10 question interactive form.
- 04On the $20 plan, the Design tab's weekly limits are expected to cover only 2–3 large generations during research preview.
- 05Codex gains Computer Use for Mac apps (runs in the background), Chronicle screen-context memory, and new plugins including image generation.
- 06Factory AI raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation.
- 07Zapier's AutomationBench reports no model has cracked 10% on real-world automation tasks including CRM updates and multi-step tool chains.
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