The Agentic Leap: Claude 4.7, Perplexity’s ‘Personal Computer’, and Codex Computer Use — 2026-04-16#

Highlights#

Today’s dominant signal is the rapid maturation of agentic capabilities and local computer orchestration. With massive updates to OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s release of Claude Opus 4.7, models are increasingly breaking out of the chat interface to operate GUIs, manage local file systems, and execute complex workflows directly on our machines.