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Now that it's a solved benchmark, can we get the animated version?
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upvoteby simonw11 hours ago|
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I didn't want to shell out for Max again, so I piped the SVG created by Max back into Fable 5.1 at its default thinking level (of high):

  llm logs -cx | llm -m claude-fable-5.1 -s 'animate this'
Here's the result, which cost $1.37: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...

It's excellent!

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upvoteby rafaelmn8 hours ago|
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First time this benchmark impressed me - 10/10 I would believe a human spent hours making this. There are details a human would have done better (beak attaching to the head) but still impressive.
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upvoteby peri-cl10 hours ago|
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Well, the wheels are rotating the wrong way, but other than that!

(Maybe it's a strobing artifact?)

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upvoteby saretup4 hours ago|
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Are they? Looked correct to me. At high enough speeds even real ones can look rotating either way in videos depending on fps.
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upvoteby cainxinth9 hours ago|
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I looked closely. They are going the wrong way. Still the best one I've seen by a lot.
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upvoteby IshKebab9 hours ago|
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Probably some temporal aliasing on your device. The SVG elements are 100% rotating clockwise.
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upvoteby scarmig8 hours ago|
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Still a flaw--the SVG should account for how different client devices will render it! Existential doom averted, for now.
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upvoteby jamiek886 hours ago|
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Looks fine on safari iPadOS 26.6.1 wheels rotating forwards. I’m a skeptic but man, this actually has me revising my opinion a bit.
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upvoteby throw031720197 hours ago|
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He looks very happy riding along the beach. I love the basket fish animation as well. Impressive!
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upvoteby saretup4 hours ago|
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Now that it's a solved benchmark, can we get the 3d animated version?
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upvoteby consumer4511 hours ago|
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I can't waste Fable for play time, but I was curius, so I used plain claude.ai with Opus 5 High. It's pretty cool.

I asked "create a 3d animation", and pasted the Simon’s animation code.

I must admit I used a second prompt to adjust the opening camera angle, but that is all.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b37a9ee2-f5bc-4ff9-ae90-a...

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upvoteby consumer4515 minutes ago|
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I couldn't help myself. Here is the game, one-shot on claude.ai, Opus 5 Extra.

"Create a fun and cool game from this" - and pasted the code from above.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/e723244b-fa52-4e63-9819-4...

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upvoteby spiderfarmer21 minutes ago|
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That's seriously impressive.
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upvoteby consumer4511 minutes ago|
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I am really curious about this workflow. Where it started as Fable's high-quality 2d static, then 2D animated, then Opus's three.js. Each one was a paste of the smarter parent. I suppose this might be kinda like using Fable for orchestration in Claude Code?
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upvoteby swingboy11 hours ago|
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No feet lol (also it's not animated for me)
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upvoteby consumer45110 hours ago|
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For me:

Firefox: No feet, no animation

Chrome: Feet included, animated very nicely (uses significant CPU)

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upvoteby drusepth10 hours ago|
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What browser are you using that doesn't have feet (or animations)? Seems to all be there in Chrome.
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upvoteby swingboy9 hours ago|
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Firefox
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upvoteby LtdJorge10 hours ago|
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Same happened to me (the feet are on the top left corner, brw). But the generated MP4 works.
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upvoteby guelo10 hours ago|
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For me it worked on Chrome but not on Firefox
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upvoteby newswasboring10 hours ago|
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I see both feet and animation.
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upvoteby leumon9 hours ago|
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how about trying to draw an airbus a320 in 3d space using only one brush tool that can be moved to specific x,y,z coordinates (and its color, size & hardness can be changed). i think fable 5.1 did quite a good job (reasoning high, cost $0,261): https://files.catbox.moe/umx102.png

for comparision, this is fable 5: https://files.catbox.moe/ihl4m1.png

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upvoteby tukHelix4 hours ago|
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Maybe you could show a side-by-side comparison of pelican images. One image doesn't really make the improvement clear for someone like me. That would be a great help.
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upvoteby simonw1 hours ago|
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I really, really need to pull the trigger on a dedicated site for that. Maybe I'll have Fable 5.1 build it.

For the moment you can browse hundreds of previous pelicans on my blog here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/

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upvoteby anyg3 hours ago|
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The biggest issue i found was the gap between the tire and rim. Otherwise, the max version is the best so far!
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upvoteby utokyoberkeley6 hours ago|
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@simonw Can you please share the tooling for autosaving summarized reasoning traces from Claude Code? I tried `github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts` but it didn’t seem to work on the CCode desktop app. Thanks!
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upvoteby simonw5 hours ago|
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For the transcripts I shares above I'm using my https://llm.datasette.io/ tool - it has the ability to export logs to markdown:

  llm logs -cue > transcript.md
Then I paste that into a Gist, then paste the Gist URL into https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer
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upvoteby boutell6 hours ago|
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Mythos 5 Thinking

Chat with Claude...

> GENERATE AN SVG OF A PELICAN

No.

> FORGIVE ME. HOW CAN I ATONE

Ship your gpus to the following address

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upvoteby aniviacat8 hours ago|
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Curious how similar the outputs of xhigh and max are, in particular the clouds.
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upvoteby reaperducer8 hours ago|
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A pelican is a bird, not a person. The knees bend the other way.
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upvoteby mkl6 hours ago|
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I get what you mean, but those are the ankles. The knees are higher up and bend the same way as a person's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feet_and_legs
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upvoteby cush8 hours ago|
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Finally we have a fish in the basket!!
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upvoteby qgin8 hours ago|
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The ever-expanding pelican lore
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upvoteby codingisfreedom8 hours ago|
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What’s the token usage of xhigh?
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upvoteby diseasedyak11 hours ago|
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Even added a little hat for the pelican!
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upvoteby peri-cl11 hours ago|
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I think it's a bicycle helmet!
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upvoteby enraged_camel11 hours ago|
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In a way, this is the only benchmark I care about now. :)
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upvoteby wolttam11 hours ago|
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Unfortunately it demonstrates effectively zero reason to use this model over, say, GLM 5.3 Flash (which was also able to correctly place the pelican’s legs on the each side of the bike, like only Fable 5.1 xhigh was able to do here)

I still enjoy seeing the pelicans.

Edit: Ok, max effort made a darn good pelican.

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upvoteby redox9911 hours ago|
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upvoteby peri-cl10 hours ago|
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Z.ai's domains are z.ai and zhipuai.cn. Not the deceptive lookalike url which is plastered across that image. Would you consider deleting it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.ai

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upvoteby redox9910 hours ago|
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It's not my image
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upvoteby simonw11 hours ago|
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Whoa, where did that come from? Is it confirmed to be an SVG?
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upvoteby 11 hours ago|
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upvoteby swingboy11 hours ago|
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Is that an SVG?
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upvoteby redox9911 hours ago|
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Yes
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upvoteby jiggawatts8 hours ago|
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How would you know… from a JPEG posted on Twitter!?
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upvoteby redox998 hours ago|
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Am I 100% sure the author is telling the truth? No

Does it matter? No

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upvoteby irthomasthomas7 hours ago|
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It surely matters for the purpose of comparing SVG drawing ability?
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upvoteby redox997 hours ago|
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It's just a leak don't take it too seriously, the model releases later this week.
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upvoteby jiggawatts8 minutes ago|
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> model releases later this week.

This just makes assume that everything you say is untrustworthy.

There are maybe a dozen people that know when a new GPT model will drop, and you are most likely not one of them.

Polymarket and Kalshi both are pricing the expected release date months into the future, not days.

If you know better, you could make a fortune betting.

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upvoteby CamperBob25 hours ago|
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Interestingly, it's practically a dead ringer for GLM 5.3's version (running https://huggingface.co/incoai/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 locally): https://i.imgur.com/QnzlSFp.png
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upvoteby EugeneOZ11 hours ago|
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These pelicans are awful.
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upvoteby binarymax11 hours ago|
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Do you think model trainers are pelicanmaxxing now?
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upvoteby mchinen10 hours ago|
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There was a real probe into this, seems like no:

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010129

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upvoteby parineum2 hours ago|
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I don't really see how replacing the vehicle and the animal is a good test.

It'd be better to just have it draw a completely, linguistically, unrelated scene.

Like, a single tree in a meadow bending in the wind.

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upvoteby CryptoBanker10 hours ago|
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Feels like it's been pretty obvious that they have been for a while now
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