Simon Willison’s Weblog

New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206. Google's Jeff Dean:

Today’s the one year anniversary of our first Gemini model releases! And it’s never looked better.

Check out our newest release, Gemini-exp-1206, in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API!

I upgraded my llm-gemini plugin to support the new model and released it as version 0.6 - you can install or upgrade it like this:

llm install -U llm-gemini

Running my SVG pelican on a bicycle test prompt:

llm -m gemini-exp-1206 "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

Provided this result, which is the best I've seen from any model:

Here's the full output - I enjoyed these two pieces of commentary from the model:

<polygon>: Shapes the distinctive pelican beak, with an added line for the lower mandible.
[...]
transform="translate(50, 30)": This attribute on the pelican's <g> tag moves the entire pelican group 50 units to the right and 30 units down, positioning it correctly on the bicycle.

The new model is also currently in top place on the Chatbot Arena.

Update: a delightful bonus, here's what I got from the follow-up prompt:

llm -c "now animate it"

Transcript here.