This week brought a particularly interesting cluster of releases from Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic pushed on both the model and product fronts with Claude Opus 4.7 and the new Claude Design, while OpenAI expanded in two different directions with GPT-Rosalind and the latest Codex. Put together, these launches say something important about where the frontier is heading. The story is no longer just about smarter chatbots. It is about AI splitting into distinct product forms: the general-purpose reasoning model, the domain specialist, and the workflow-native agent. Anthropic's side of the week was especially revealing because it showed both ends of that transition. Claude Opus 4.7 looks like a refinement of the frontier generalist: stronger for advanced software work, better at following instructions, and more reliable in longer chains of reasoning. But Claude Design is the more interesting signal. It packages Claude not just as a model that can describe visual work, but as a...
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