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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Simon Willison / April 16, 2026

For anyone who has been taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model releases – Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba and Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic.
Here’s t…

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Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models

Simon Willison / April 2, 2026

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Four new vision-capable Apache 2.0 licensed reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind, sized at 2B, 4B, 31B, plus a 26B-A4B Mixture-of-Experts.
Google emphasize “unprecedented level of intelligence-p…