We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

Back in July 2023, Bellingcat analysed the geolocation performance of OpenAI and Google’s models. Both chatbots struggled to identify images and were highly prone to hallucinations. However, since then, such models have rapidly evolved.