Ready to roll
Two wheels, one beak, and a very upright rider.
GPT-4oBenchmark exampleShare
✳ONE PROMPT. SO MANY PLOT TWISTS.
IS YOUR CODEX
HAVING A
MOMENT?
A pelican. A bicycle. What could possibly go wrong? A little gallery for big AI expectations and beautifully questionable results.
Meet the pelicansMade for the group chat. And the occasional existential crisis.
The pelican-on-a-bicycle testTHE PELICAN GALLERY
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
INTERESTING RESULTS.
The good, the weird, and the “I pay for this?” Find your spirit pelican. Send it to a friend.
A starter collection from the public pelican benchmark. Examples, not live Codex reports.
Light on the pedals
A pale pelican balances above a spare bicycle frame.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22)Benchmark exampleShare
Full frontal pelican
A blue-gray bird takes the handlebars head-on.
o1-previewBenchmark exampleShare
Some assembly required
The wheels made it. The rest took a scenic route.
Gemini 1.5 Pro 002Benchmark exampleShare
Bird, meet abstraction
A floating white shape and a very unconventional bicycle.
Claude 3 OpusBenchmark exampleShare
A golden detour
Gold and brown shapes interpret the brief very freely.
Cerebras Llama 3.1 8BBenchmark exampleShare
Every masterpiece starts with the same prompt.Explore the original benchmark
YOUR TURN,
PICASSO.
Paste this exact prompt into your coding agent. Keep the first result. See where your pelican lands.
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicyclePublic benchmark · pelican-v1
Community uploads are coming next. For now, share your creation on your own feed and link back to the gallery.
When AI feels off, it helps to have something you can actually look at. Simon Willison’s pelican test gives everyone the same wonderfully awkward starting point.
Does a bad pelican mean Codex is degraded?
No. One drawing cannot establish a quality regression or account-level restriction. Prompting, model settings and randomness all matter. This launch is a place to compare and share examples, with no live quality verdict.
Can I upload my own result?
Not in this first release. Protected Skill/MCP uploads are the next milestone, with sign-in, short-lived upload tokens, safety review and owner deletion. No files are collected by this page.
What do the gallery labels mean?
They are playful editorial labels, not benchmark scores. The starter artworks come from the linked public collection and keep their original model names. They are not represented as current Codex generations.