Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)

The Pelican-bicycle alternatives gallery broadens the familiar drawing test into unusual combinations of animals and machines. Its September 2026 run covers ten prompts across six language models. Each model writes SVG, the code describing a vector drawing, and the gallery preserves the returned files for comparison.

The methodology explains why varied prompts matter: a famous test could enter training data. These alternatives give viewers more examples to inspect, but they do not establish whether training contamination occurred. The older and newer runs also used different reasoning settings, so their pictures are not a controlled measure of progress.