Released: 2026-04-27
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google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 3752
Distance: 574km
Lat: -44.821935
Lng: -67.433947
The image displays a landscape characteristic of the Patagonian steppe in Argentina, featuring arid terrain, low shrubs, and rolling hills. The double solid yellow lines on the asphalt road combined with the specific type of Google Street View car visibility (common in older Argentine coverage) suggest a location on Route 3 or a similar provincial highway in Chubut or Santa Cruz. The low sun angle and sparse vegetation are highly representative of the high-latitude desert environment of southern Argentina.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 33
Distance: 10064km
Lat: 37.915
Lng: -120.543
This image shows a distinctive volcanic landscape with a dark cinder cone visible in the distance. The road features yellow center line markings typical of US highways. The terrain appears to be high desert with sparse vegetation and volcanic rock formations. The distinctive dark volcanic cone, arid landscape, and road style are characteristic of the Craters of the Moon area in Idaho, or alternatively, the volcanic regions near Mammoth Lakes, California. Given the landscape characteristics and the isolated volcanic cones visible, this appears to be along CA Route 395 in the Long Valley area near Mammoth Lakes, California, where similar volcanic terrain and road configurations are found. The sparse desert vegetation and volcanic cinder cones are typical of this region.
x-ai/grok-4-fast
x-ai
Score: 33
Distance: 10038km
Lat: 39.4984
Lng: -117.0683
The image depicts a dry, arid high-desert landscape with sparse brown vegetation, rolling hills, and a two-lane highway curving through open terrain under a partly cloudy sky. This is characteristic of central Nevada along US Route 50, known as the ’Loneliest Road in America,’ particularly near the town of Austin, where similar barren hills and vast expanses are common. The lack of urban features and the specific hilly backdrop match Street View imagery from this region.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
anthropic
Score: 33
Distance: 10015km
Lat: 38.5
Lng: -118.5
This image shows a two-lane road through arid, high desert terrain with sparse sagebrush vegetation, dry hills, and what appears to be a dry lake bed or playa in the distance to the left. The landscape is characteristic of the Great Basin desert in Nevada or eastern California. The road markings, terrain, and vegetation suggest this could be in Nevada near a dry lake. The yellowish-brown hills and wide open basin suggest somewhere in central/western Nevada, possibly near Hawthorne or in Mineral County, Nevada.
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 31
Distance: 10170km
Lat: 39.533056
Lng: -119.737222
The image shows a desert road with a distinctive hill on the right-hand side and a body of water in the distance on the left. The landscape and road layout are consistent with Nevada State Route 445, also known as the Pyramid Way or Pyramid Lake Highway, which runs along the western shore of Pyramid Lake. The geographical features and road markings suggest a location near Pyramid Lake, Nevada. The coordinates 39.533056, -119.737222 correspond to a location on this highway.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 34
Distance: 9996km
Lat: 38.0065
Lng: -119.0192
Arid sagebrush landscape of the Great Basin with a low volcanic cinder-cone rising from a flat, reflective surface to the left suggests Mono Lake area east of the Sierra Nevada. Narrow two-lane highway with double yellow centerline and minimal shoulder matches rural US‑395/Mono Lake shoreline roads; the hill ahead resembles Negit Island/volcanic features in Mono Lake, so I am placing the guess on the highway along the western shore of Mono Lake near Lee Vining, California.
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 30
Distance: 10203km
Lat: 40.05
Lng: -119.45
The image shows a two-lane paved road with double yellow lines cutting through arid, rolling hills with dry sagebrush and grassland vegetation. This landscape is characteristic of the Great Basin region in the western United States, specifically northern Nevada. The terrain, road style, and vegetation match areas near Pyramid Lake or the Smoke Creek Desert north of Reno, Nevada. The partly cloudy sky with dramatic cloud formations is also typical of this high desert region. The lack of trees and the specific brownish-red soil color further suggest this is in the Basin and Range province of Nevada.
Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.