Drawing SVGs isn't something I really care about either, and I think it's still to "qualitatively compare" e.g. "Opus's pelican vs GPT's pelican vs GLM's pelican" or whatever the kids are doing.

But what stands out to me is that it's barely able to draw a "recognizable" pelican at all. The Devstral 2 model even looks slightly better, though maybe I'm splitting hairs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/

I just copied and pasted each prompt as specified by Mashimo and simonw into a chat interface, using a 4-bit Unsloth quantization of Gemma 4 26B, with the default sampler settings recommended by Google, and a system prompt of "You are a helpful assistant". The results are miles ahead of what the Mistral model output.

I've gotten a lot of use out of Mistral models, and I imagine this model is pretty good at other things, but it really feels like a 128B parameter dense model should be at least a little better than this.