Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7; April VC Funding 66% AI-Focused

Anthropic publicly released Opus 4.7 on April 16 and previewed Mythos, a security-focused variant, to 11 partners. Global VC funding in April reached $56B, up 100% year-over-year, with $37B (66%) allocated to AI. Anthropic's $15B and Project Prometheus's $10B rounds accounted for 45% of total monthly deployment.