VideoSora
An initial Sora attempt along a coastal route; the rider reverses direction midway.
#49
Sora
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2024-12
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arrived at drawing pelican riding a bicycle SVG stage of AGI
#48
Model not specified
Static SVGgemini-exp-1206
An early result the author first described as “spectacular.”
#45
gemini-exp-1206
2024-11
Static SVGQwQ via Ollama 20GB
An early locally generated pelican from an open reasoning model.
#44
QwQ
Static SVGgemini-exp-1121
An early experimental model; it later described its own image as an insect.
#42
gemini-exp-1121
Static SVGRecraft V3 · California brown pelican on a bicycle
Simon Willison generated this with the Recraft V3 API's vector_illustration style and published the request parameters and original SVG. This is a text-to-vector sample, not a text-only LLM writing SVG. The method distinction is preserved; one output is not a model ranking. Static artwork, without user interaction.
#41
recraftv3
Static SVGQwen 2.5 Coder 32B
Not the worst result.
#40
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B
2024-10
Static SVGClaude 3.5 Sonnet new vs previous
The original post, comparing two Claude 3.5 outputs; 680,000 views.
#27
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Static SVGGemini 1.5 Flash 001/002
On the original experiment's first day: 001 gave the pelican a gun; 002 gave it a barbell.
#26
Gemini 1.5 Flash 001Gemini 1.5 Flash 002
Static SVG16 models (Claude 3.5 / GPT-4o / Gemini 1.5 / Llama 3.1 ...)
The original experiment. The author liked pelicans, and very few ready-made pelican SVGs were available online at the time.
#22
Claude 3.5GPT-4oGemini 1.5Llama 3.1
Static SVG22 SVGs in repo
The original repository of SVG source files.
#2
Model not specified
1988-06
Videopractical+animation
Who Framed Roger Rabbit already featured a pelican riding a real bicycle. Water-filled wheels and counterweights helped balance it.
#1
Model not specified