Adizero, made in Blender
A Blender test using the adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, with a product page for each model's shoe.
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
Built by Pat
Things I built with AI.
I test AI models by building things. Open each model’s version, copy the exact prompt, or watch the test.
58 builds
Mana Yerba Mate
A test of how closely three models could copy Mana Yerba Mate's moving product page.
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Three browser versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, with a brief covering track building, ride testing and paying guests.
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
An Awwwards website, rebuilt
Each model chose an Awwwards winner to copy, so this test compared their website choices as well as the finished pages.
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
Clone an Awwwards winner
A pixel-for-pixel rebuild of an Awwwards winning site that the model picks for itself.
- Grok 4.7
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
A scroll-driven 3D product page
A product page for a mechanical keyboard whose 3D centerpiece is built in code and driven by scroll.
- Grok 4.7
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
Clone Mario Kart
A playable browser clone of Rainbow Road using Mario Kart 8's drift and item mechanics.
- Grok 4.7
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
Fallingwater in Blender
I gave GPT-6 Astra control of Blender, the free 3D modelling software, and asked it to build three things: a flythrough of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the room I am sitting in right now, and a 3D model of the NEO humanoid robot embedded in a web page. You do not need to know how to code or anything about Blender to do this. Neither do I. The setup takes five minutes; the three builds took 54 hours of unattended compute and $1,771.61 in tokens. Below are the prompts, the results, and everything that broke.
Pat's studio in Blender
From “I Gave GPT 6 Astra Blender Access (The Results Are INSANE)”
NEO robot model and product page
From “I Gave GPT 6 Astra Blender Access (The Results Are INSANE)”
An iPod for your AI conversations
GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 built desktop iPods with click-wheel controls and songs generated to sound like the early 2000s.
- GPT-6 Astra
- Fable 5.1
Omaha Beach, in 3D
Two attempts to recreate D-Day at Omaha Beach in 3D, with a timeline for watching the battle unfold.
- GPT-6 Astra
- Fable 5.1
A playable Nuketown
A browser shooter test on Nuketown, with GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 building the same map.
- GPT-6 Astra
- Fable 5.1
A dive watch that comes apart
A product-page test where scrolling was meant to take a 3D dive watch apart and put it back together.
- GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Fable 5.1
A machine that has to walk
A 3D walking-machine test based on Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, with adjustable legs, gravity and ground friction.
- GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Fable 5.1
Six karts. Three laps.
Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol built browser kart racers from the same prompt.
- GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Fable 5.1
Clone an Awwwards winner, pixel for pixel
Each model picked its own award-winning site, read the real computed styles off the live page, and rebuilt from those values until every assertion passed.
- GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Fable 5.1
World-class web design
A website of their choosing, built to show off design and taste.
- Fable 5.1
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
3D and simulation
A real-time, interactive 3D place of their choosing — something you're inside of, not an object in a void.
- Fable 5.1
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
Game development
A playable browser game of their choosing, with the obvious genres ruled out.
- Fable 5.1
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
Motion graphics
A short motion graphics piece about a real subject — no title sequences.
- Fable 5.1
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
Knowledge work: relaunching J.Crew
A full brand relaunch delivered as an agency pitch deck, collection and all.
- Fable 5.1
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
World-class web design
A website of their choosing, built to show off design and taste.
- Opus 5
- Opus 4.8
- Fable 5
3D and simulation
A real-time, interactive 3D scene of their choosing.
- Opus 5
- Opus 4.8
- Fable 5
Game development
A playable browser game of their choosing.
- Opus 5
- Opus 4.8
- Fable 5
Motion graphics
A short motion graphics piece of their choosing.
- Opus 5
- Opus 4.8
- Fable 5
Knowledge work: the SpaceX question
A private wealth deck answering one question: should you buy SpaceX?
- Opus 5
- Opus 4.8
- Fable 5
Animated 3D world
A real-time ocean + whirlpool (Charybdis) from the Odyssey, everything drawn in code.
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
- GPT-5.6 Sol
Cinematic scrolling site
A scroll-driven photoreal 3D site built around the real IMAX Keighley camera, with an interactive shoot-the-scene finale.
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
- GPT-5.6 Sol
Physics-driven game
A playable Odyssey game: blind the Cyclops, then escape under the rams.
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
- GPT-5.6 Sol
World-class web design
Each model designs an original, award-worthy website, judged on pure taste.
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
- GPT-5.6 Sol
Reviving a dying brand
A full RadioShack rebrand delivered as a PowerPoint deck with GPT Image Gen.
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
- GPT-5.6 Sol
Storm sea (WebGPU ocean)
This build is a physically simulated 3D scene in raw WebGPU, built from nothing with no imported models or textures. Everything is drawn in code.
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Archery game (axes)
The second heavy build was a playable archery game: draw a real force-draw curve, loose one arrow, and thread it through twelve aligned axe-heads, with swept collision so the fast arrow can't tunnel through the rings. Every bit of it built procedurally in code.
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Camera teardown site
The lightest graphics build (a scroll-driven product site for a film camera that disassembles into an exploded view as you scroll) went to GLM, and cheaply. Here is that prompt:
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Research report
These are the jobs a normal week is made of: research something and write it up, design a page, build a brand. First, a research report (are data centers bad for the environment, with a focus on water use) delivered as a single designed HTML document with self-built charts and a source cited for every number.
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Design website
Then a design showcase site, total creative freedom, meant to show off peak taste. Both models, given a blank canvas, independently reached for the deep ocean. GLM made NOCTILUCA, a bioluminescence field study; Kimi made ABYSSAL, a vertical survey of the deep. Here is the prompt:
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Brand identity
And a full brand identity system for a maker of precision navigational instruments, with the logo drawn in code as real SVG, plus palette, type, and applied mockups.
- GLM 5.2
- Kimi K3
Interactive 3D command-center gadget
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Weather app with its own forecast model
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
MP3-to-MIDI converter
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Street Fighter-style 2D fighting game
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Luxury watch 3D landing page
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
Counter-Strike 2 clone (Kimi comparison)
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K3
- Fable 5
Isaacson-style Pat Simmons biography opening
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Kimi K3 motion-graphics explainer
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Pat's workshop landing page redesign
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Tarantino-style trailer and shot plan
From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Opus 4.8
- Kimi K2.7
- Kimi K3
- GLM 5.2
Browser Rubik's Cube solver
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Monica's apartment explorable 3D model
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Interactive Milky Way learning map
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Counter-Strike 2 clone (Sol comparison)
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Cinema knowledge graph
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Branching interactive graphic novel
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Text-adventure dungeon
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
YouTube intro in Pat's voice
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
GPT 5.6 launch PowerPoint
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5
Spirit Airlines brand refresh
From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”
- Fable 5
- Opus 4.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.5