alt Hacker News(I can't draw a pelican for this one because Alibaba Cloud have flagged my email address and won't let me pay them for access. So I'm waiting for the open weights release, or for the new model to show up on OpenRouter.)
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Here's what qwen 3.8 max preview generated when prompted with "create an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle"
https://cypressf.com/qwen38-pelican.svg
Notably it added a cheeky fish in the beak.
lol the pelican benchmark is basically the only review process I trust at this point. kinda wild that alibaba of all companies is making it hard to give them money tho, you'd think they'd want prominent devs testing their stuff.
openrouter usually picks these up pretty fast, hopefully it shows up there soon. You can also just download the qwen app and do this in the chat interface using their MCP tools for local dev.
AI rabble-rouser!
Did you know you can create more than one email address?
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I managed to get myself a working Qwen Cloud account, here's a pelican. The reasoning trace is pretty fun - three details I liked were "Could add helmet? No." and "Maybe add small bell? no." and "Need maybe add small fish in basket? Not necessary."
https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... (scroll to bottom for pelican)