what the sorcery is that https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/recraft-ai-peli...

I tried their model and asking a few different svg of pelicans. it is INSANE.

This is also interesting: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/pov-pelican-opu...

AFAIK that model is pretty old, and it was explicitly trained for SVG generation. For other models the capability of generating SVGs of real stuff is accidental. Same as GPT-5.x and Sonnet 4.5+ being able to generate MIDI music.