Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped, but Anthropic's hiding something
Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.7 to the public, and on the surface it's a strong upgrade. But the more interesting story is what they didn't announce. Anthropic's true flagship is a model called Mitos, locked away inside Project Glasswing, with only about 40 mega corporations getting access. The AI economy is officially splitting into two tiers.
What's new in Opus 4.7
The biggest win in the public release is the massive vision upgrade — 3.75 megapixels. That's a real number with real consequences: Opus 4.7 can now reliably read fine print, parse detailed screenshots, decode complex design layers, and process technical diagrams without losing detail. For anyone using Claude on UI work, design review, or document analysis, this is the upgrade that matters.
New maximum-effort reasoning controls
Anthropic also shipped new extra-high and maximum-effort reasoning modes. You can now tell the model to slow down and grind on hard problems — the kind of thinking budget that used to require workaround prompting. Useful for complex reasoning, math-heavy work, and high-stakes decision-making.
The pricing strategy
The pricing reflects the tier. You pay more for the deep reasoning modes, but for most everyday work the standard tier is more than enough. Anthropic is segmenting carefully — the public model is genuinely good, but it's deliberately not their best.
The secret Mitos model
The detail nobody is talking about: Mitos exists. It's Anthropic's true flagship, sitting behind Project Glasswing, and access is restricted to a small group of elite partners. We're talking about something on the order of 40 companies — not 40,000.
This is the new pattern across frontier AI: a public tier for everyone, a secret tier for the trillion-dollar few.
Anthropic hits 30 billion in revenue
Anthropic's reported revenue is climbing fast — 30 billion in annualized revenue territory. That's the kind of number that funds two-tier model strategies. The AI economy is consolidating into a small number of platforms with disproportionate compute access.
What this means for business owners
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