Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here — But Did Anthropic Secretly Nerf Opus 4 6?

Claude just got a brand new model — Opus 4.7. Better benchmarks, smarter vision, and a completely new way of thinking. But before we get to the features, there’s drama. Users felt Claude got worse in the weeks before this launch. GitHub issues. Viral tweets. A leaked OpenAI memo. And one quiet admission from Anthropic that raises real questions. Did they sandbag the old model to make the new one look better? We break down every new feature AND the full controversy.