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I added Opus 4.5 to my benchmark of 30 alternatives to your now-classic pelican-bicycle prompt (e.g., “Generate an SVG of a dragonfly balancing a chandelier”).
by tkgally 11mo ago
I added Opus 4.5 to my benchmark of 30 alternatives to your now-classic pelican-bicycle prompt (e.g., “Generate an SVG of a dragonfly balancing a chandelier”). Nine models are now represented:
https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/index.html https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/index.ht...
- simonw 11mo agoI hadn't seen these before, they are so cool! Definitely enhances the idea to see a bunch of different illustrations in the same place. Blogged about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/llm-svg-generation-benchmark/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/llm-svg-generation-ben...
- tkgally 11mo agoThanks! I feel honored.
- system2 11mo agoGemini 3.0 Pro Preview is incredible compared to the others, at least for SVGs.
- ben_w 11mo agoI was about to say the same; suspiciously good, even. Feels like it's either memorised a bunch of SVG files, or has a search tool and is finding complete items off the web to include either in whole or in part. Given that it also sometimes goes weird, I suspect it's more likely to be the former. While the latter would be technically impressive, it's also the whole "this is just collage!" criticism that diffusion image generators faced from people that didn't understand diffusion image generators.