One underrated thing about the recent frontier models, IMO, is that they are obviating the need for image gen as a standalone thing. Opus 4.6 (and apparently 3.1 Pro as well) doesn't have the ability to generate images but it is so good at making SVG that it basically doesn't matter at this point. And the benefit of SVG is that it can be animated and interactive.

I find this fascinating because it literally just happened in the past few months. Up until ~summer of 2025, the SVG these models made was consistently buggy and crude. By December of 2026, I was able to get results like this from Opus 4.5 (Henry James: the RPG, made almost entirely with SVG): https://the-ambassadors.vercel.app

And now it looks like Gemini 3.1 Pro has vaulted past it.

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> doesn't have the ability to generate images but it is so good at making SVG that it basically doesn't matter at this point

Yeah, since the invention of vector images, suddenly no one cares about raster images anymore.

Obviously not true, but that's how your comment reads right now. "Image" is very different from "Image", and one doesn't automagically replace the other.

	▲	buu700 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This reminds me of the time I printed a poster with a blown up version of some image for a high school history project. A classmate asked how I did it, so I started going on about how I used software to vectorize the image. Turned out he didn't care about any of that and just wanted the name of the print shop.
	▲	Der_Einzige 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You have no idea how badly I want to be teleported to the alternative world where VECTOR COMPUTING was the dominant form of computers. We had high framerate (yes it was variable), bright, beautiful displays in the 1980s with the vectrex.

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cachius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

2025 that is