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    Simon Willison Shares GPT-6 Astra Pelican Comparison

    Post shares a grid of pelican bicycle illustrations from four GPT models.

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    3 Sources, 26d ago, first seen 26d ago

    TLDR

    Simon Willison announced on X that he received access to GPT-6 Astra. He posted a grid comparing its output against GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna using illustrations of pelicans riding bicycles. The grid displays twelve images arranged by model. His linked page presents an SVG reasoning-effort comparison for the GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 series. The page also states pricing per million input and output tokens: Astra at ten dollars and fifty dollars, Sol at five dollars and thirty dollars, Terra at two dollars fifty cents and fifteen dollars, and Luna at one dollar and six dollars.

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    Sentiment

    Positive98.1%1.9%Negative

    Summary

    Sentiment

    Positive98.1%1.9%Negative

    Many accounts praised GPT-6 Astra for its strong performance and fine details in the pelican grid test, while a few noted regressions in detail quality on Blender agent revisions.

    Based on 105 sentiment-bearing replies from 103 accounts across 2 conversations.

    Summary

    Many accounts praised GPT-6 Astra for its strong performance and fine details in the pelican grid test, while a few noted regressions in detail quality on Blender agent revisions.

    Based on 105 sentiment-bearing replies from 103 accounts across 2 conversations.

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    3 Sources

    @simonwGot access to GPT-6 Astra. Want to see some pelicans? Yeah you want to see some pelicans... here's a grid comparing Astra to GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-pelicans.html

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    @simonwGot access to GPT-6 Astra. Want to see some pelicans? Yeah you want to see some pelicans... here's a grid comparing Astra to GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-pelicans.html