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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

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I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and b…

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  1. 2026-09-04 23:59 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

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