AI Models Drawing Pelicans
On 24 Jul, a LocalLLaMA post compared SVG generation for a pelican riding a bicycle across Laguna S2.1 118B Q2 LX, Gemma4 12b Q8_0, and Qwen 3.6 35B A3B IQ4 +Q8_0. On 14 Aug, a user said Qwen3.8-27B responded to a request to draw a pelican by producing an entire SVG animation. Another Qwen3.8-27B pelican post followed that day. By 13 Sep, attention had moved to “Qwen3.8 flash next” and a claim of untrained SVG generation. The informal pelican test has become a recurring demonstration of how these models produce vector graphics. Apparently, the bird is now infrastructure.
Even if factual, the impact is 0%. These LocalLLaMA demonstrations give users examples to inspect. They do not change model availability, pricing, training processes, or documented capabilities.
Watch for reproducible prompts, generated SVG files, and controlled comparisons across the named models. Official documentation addressing the “untrained SVG generation” claim would materially change the picture.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm using this <a href="https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-v2-GGUF">opus 4.6 distilled version of
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1szrbub/qwenscope_official_sparse_autoencoders_saes_for/"> <img alt="Qwen-Scope: Official Sparse
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>found this artist "8th Project" on instagram who drew Pokémon as pure geometric abstraction, decided to just drop it on every Al I had
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Until last week, generating an image inside Claude meant Claude wrote you a prompt. Then you copied it. Opened another tab. Pasted it into
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I wrote up this little python app to cycle through a bunch of prompts like this:</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left">Single HTML file using
The new Qwen3.6-27B just gave me definitely the best pelican riding a bicycle I've had from a 16.8GB model file! simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/...
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I build context/harness optimization tooling, so provider-side serialization quirks actually matter to me. If you're optimizing over prompts, you
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tbzr64/qwen36_just_stops/"> <img alt="qwen3.6 just stops"
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