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Pelican from a few days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/ - I was using the free tier on OpenRouter, which expires on July 21st.

I tried the preview model 41 days ago and got a pelican with a "change pelican color" button: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/hy3-preview-pel...

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I quite enjoy that the "animate wheels" button animates the sun instead.

I have been overly critical and arguing in bad faith about your writing in the past. As well as negative towards you, which in turn was breeding a bad environment. While I dont really enjoy LLMs, you did help me realize my unreasonable feelings as well as realize the occupation (and the joys I got from it) is essentially dead from it’s previous iteration and that I should let go and just join in the “I’m doing it for the money and attention” crowd. I will still just hand code my own projects and not use LLMs when I can. I think it’s cool you started the pelican meme however useful it really is even if only aesthetically.

Ooookay?

Please don’t discourage this kind of public thoughtful introspection.

Recently tried the pelican test on GPT-OSS which was probably one of the best local models of 2025. So cool to see how models have improved in the SVG pelican!

I'm skeptical, as tests go, I think that's burned out now. They could easily be training specifically to get a better pelican...

If they were training specifically for it the result would be much better

Doesn't have to be specific training, just has to consume simonw's blog. It's got lots of SVG pelicans, with helpful commentary on how good they are. I think there might be some kind of hill climbing going on here.

GPT-OSS was by far the worst local model in 2026. I have the luxury of plenty of H100's to try them, and Gpt-oss was atrocious with a coding agent. Gemma4 and Deepseek 4 are the best for coding, Qwen for images.

Curious why TFA calls out "Tencent in China".

  tencent/Hy3. New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China

Is there a Tencent AI lab elsewhere (MiniMax have some association with Tencent, for example)?

I think it's just their version of "Designed by Apple in California"

Tencent seems to have subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Subsidiaries

Also they have large European / South African shareholders.

Tony the Tiger on a bicycle selling addictive items to children is not new.

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