Simon Willison tests Mistral Large 4 with an SVG prompt
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Willison ran the same "armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars" SVG prompt through mistral/mistral-large-4 alongside claude-opus-5.5, gpt-6.1-sol and gemini-3.8-flash. The post riffs on a Hacker News comment that benchmarks are saturated.
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