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simonw • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 11 replies • view on HN

Surprisingly it only supports reasoning "none" or reasoning "high".

That setting didn't seem to make any real difference - it added a tiny bit of thinking trace and high actually produced less output tokens than none.

The high bicycle frame is better then the none one though.

Pelicans: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...

(Definitely the best I've seen from any Mistral model: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle+mist... )


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defjm • yesterday at 5:36 PM

This is such a pristine pelican. Let me say it here first folks, AGI is here.

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rahen • yesterday at 8:19 PM

The benchmarks against Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol look pretty good for 3D generation: https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2107516529608700383

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pilaf • yesterday at 7:28 PM

I think it's curious that it has so many shared elements with the latest Astra pelicans: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...

- Sun on top right

- Cloud on top left

- Three "speed lines"

- Two feathers on top of the head

- Eye rendered as a black circle with smaller white circle inside

I wonder if the pelican benchmark is converging across models due to past results being used in training.

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inknight • yesterday at 2:59 PM

Why are pelicans almost identical across different models?

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deflator • yesterday at 3:27 PM

Not bad! I like how it got the motion lines on the correct side. IIRC, many of the other ones you've posted have the motion lines on both sides of the pelican

danbrooks • yesterday at 9:00 PM

That's one heck of a pelican!

BeetleB • yesterday at 6:44 PM

The difference between high and none is the bicycle.

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XCSme • yesterday at 4:26 PM

I tried testing it, but reasoning effort indeed seems to be broken somehow.

RGS1811 • yesterday at 8:22 PM

That beak is CHONKY.

dizhn • yesterday at 5:02 PM

High one is actually much better. The feet connect to the pedals, the wheels don't have a hub cap, although it looks like the pelican is wearing the seat, it's in a relatively proper position etc.

Both are riding on the left side of the path for some reason.

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nicolamanzini • yesterday at 4:09 PM

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