{
  "id": 5675708,
  "title": "The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/the-pelican-comparison-grid-for-astra-is-pretty-interesting",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-04T23:59:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/astra-pelicans/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and beyond being fun the result was surprisingly useful. See the grid for full quality images. Here's the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}