Mistral Large 4

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Simon Willison tests Mistral Large 4 alongside frontier models (Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash) by generating an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars, highlighting how saturated benchmarks push toward absurd creative prompts.

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# Comment: Mistral Large 4 Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/hn-49982139/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/hn-49982139/) 6th October 2026 > [wren6991](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658): The benchmark is saturated\. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars\. OK well I couldn't resist this one: ``` llm -m claude-opus-5.5 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gemini-3.8-flash 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' ``` Default reasoning levels for each:[https://tools\.simonwillison\.net/markdown\-svg\-renderer?url=ht\.\.\.](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F18c9f7fc3b3705cf88514cb9170ec246)

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