Claude Opus 4.6 Didn’t Vanish: Opus 4.7 Arrived

Claude Opus 4.6 did not get a verified formal shutdown announcement. The clearest primary-source evidence points to a newer model release, changing product surfaces, and documentation that lagged behind what some users were seeing in the app. Here, a formal deprecation means Anthropic publishes a retirement or sunset signal in model docs, changelogs, or migration notices, while a product-surface shift means the model may disappear from a UI, plan, or region without being fully retired. Anthropic