The video compression created the illusion, it removed enough frames to where you can't tell the motion of the spokes since every frame refresh they moved enough distance to be "valid" for both forward and backward motion.
Even if it is training on the Pelican bike test by now it's impressive and most importantly helps (at least I hope) svg animations and creations as those are pia to do.
It’s a bit like a naive “writing”/drawing of ideographic characters by someone who never wrote them. Things (lines and shapes) are there but just not quite right.
And it's correct detail. Earlier models had things like detached hats, or lighthouses floating above or below the level they should be at, etc. Everything is where it should be, the fish is clearly in the basket and not clipping through it, the animation has cartoon-correct parallax which is fairly impressive. By "cartoon-correct" I mean that if that was a real photo with real physics, that would be way too much motion for the boat and clouds, but for a cartoon, that is completely acceptable.
I thought they were going in the correct direction until you mentioned that. Perhaps you / it created an unintended bistable illusion :)
Looking at the SVG, the direction is missing but the default is clockwise. So I'd say it's good!
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/llm-gemini/
I found Gemini's one much more impressive initially, but on closer inspection it's got a whole bunch of issues. Missing leg, objects overlapping etc.
(We might say the seat looks "uncomfortable" xD)
So, who trained on who?
Max also made a nicer background.