Simon Willison
Gemini 3.1 Pro produced an excellent pelican riding a bicycle SVG but took over 5 minutes to do it - I'm pretty sure that's just teething problems on launch day though, I got a few error messages about capacity while trying it out. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/
Gemini 3.1 Pro

The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 tokens, $4/$18 for 200,000 to 1,000,000). That's less than half …

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Show threadSimon WillisonFeb 19
Had to update my blog post after I saw Google's Jeff Dean had posted a video of an SVG animated pelican riding a bicycle, plus a frog on a penny-farthing, a giraffe driving a tiny car, an ostrich on roller skates, a turtle kickflipping a skateboard, and a dachshund driving a stretch limousine
Show threadEugene MeidingerFeb 19
@simon Oh no they are saturating the benchmarks!
Show threadAlessandro ReFeb 19
@simon did you try with other prompts? Maybe a SVG of a pelican riding a bike is now part of the training set. This is the result of "Generate an SVG of a giraffe drinking a coke while doing a handstand"
Show threadAlessandro ReFeb 19
@simon actually, this is the second (longer) outcome of 2 attempts: the first is worse
Show threadOla BrahammarMar 5
@simon the pelican rider flabbergasts me everytime, i had to subject my collection of local Ollama models to the task! (the main purpose here was actually to see if the app could be developed "one-shot" from a single prompt. It did, gpt-5.2-codex )