Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Simon Willison's famous 'pelican riding a bicycle' benchmark surprisingly shows a locally-run, smaller Alibaba Qwen3.6 model outperforming the cloud-based, massive Claude Opus 4.7 in creative SVG generation, revealing the surprising potential of open-source models for specific tasks.
Simon Willison · Apr 17, 2026