1. It tests visual reasoning and structured output in a single task.
2. It seems to sort correctly on advancing general intelligence. As a counterexample, if I'm not misremembering, artificialanalysis.ai made some changes to their benchmark recently after Astra ranked below several older models.
3. While models have gotten significantly better in the past 2 years, the top model is still at 0.78 F1, so the test is not yet saturated. As a reference point, when I started, the top models were in the [0.1, 0.2] range.
I think they all just added a bunch of similar tasks to their training sets, so we cannot judge true emergent capabilities of the models anymore.
For example Gemini 3.8 Flash seems very impressive at first glance but the results are not actually very coherent, this shows that its "world model" is not particularly great (compare to SOTA models).
More-generally, I suspect an influence from how left-to-right languages (i.e. English) affect comic layouts. Overcoming that bias often means using vertical space to exploit the top-to-bottom habit instead. (Consider the rarity of an English-language comic panel where action is from bottom-right to top-left.)
I think that intertwining two entities (living/non-living) is still challenging but overall they're pretty sound.
That's pretty generous.
Not zebras. If you want to see how bad SVG output still is, ask for a zebra riding a scooter.
Weird as well, it's clearly pulled out some 1884 patent on clock designs, and a quick ddg/google doesn't show it as anything to do with grandfather clocks.
A monkey, surely?
The only other one I've spotted is animated is Gemini 3.0's 2025 run of an elephant.
Qwen3.8 is very clearly distilled from Claude models.