ChronoVision - News Photo Year: leaderboard
Metric: Year accuracy (%) on the 1,028 dated event photos (1952-2025): predict the year a photo was taken; zero-shot; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 55.58 |
| 2 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | 48.48 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 | 40.98 |
| 4 | Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct | 35.8 |
| 5 | GLM-4.1V-9B (Thinking) | 34.26 |
| 6 | Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct | 34.12 |
| 7 | Qwen 3 VL 4B Instruct | 32.86 |
| 8 | InternVL3.5-8B | 13.43 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=chronovision-news-photo-year · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-29.