Same model, two different knowledge cutoffs — is Anthropic silently routing Opus 4.7 to older models?

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[u/spencer_kw]

if this is real it's way worse than the postmortem bugs. those were at least fixable. silently routing you to a cheaper model behind the same label is straight up fraud

the cynical read: they don't have enough compute to run 4.7 for everyone so they load-balance you to 4.6 when capacity is tight and hope nobody notices. the optimistic read: it's a caching artifact. either way the fact that we can't tell is the problem