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Pelican on a bicycle: testing 21 quantized IBM Granite models
Simon Willison tests 21 quantized variants of IBM Granite 4.1 3B by prompting each to generate an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle, finding the results unremarkable across quantization levels.
I tried running the same "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" prompt against 21 different quantized variants of the same IBM Granite 4.1 3B model - the results weren't as interesting as I had hoped simonwillison.net/2026/May/4/g...
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