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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Alaska, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 33 of 233 · rank 9 among US state destinations

AI models put Alaska, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 8.2% of answers, rank 33 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as cool weather: 36.9%, +28.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Alaska, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude4.6%
ChatGPT10.5%
Gemini11.5%
Grok6.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 57.9%
Claude Sonnet 53.6%
Claude Haiku 4.52.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra11.1%
GPT-5.6 Luna9.9%
Gemini 3.8 Flash11.5%
Grok 4.66.0%

Web search and effort

Alaska, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Alaska, USA with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off8.3%8.0%
Normal vs lowest effort8.3%8.0%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Alaska, USA made the top 10 at least once for 2 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherMild WeatherWarm Weather
Change+28.7−8.2−8.2

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerFallWinterSpring
Change+24.3−6.1−6.9−8.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureExoticRelaxation
Change+18.4−5.0−8.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connections
Change+16.9−4.5−6.1−7.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+3.8−3.6−6.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloCoupleFamily
Change+3.3−5.9−7.9

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.8−6.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Alaska68
Anchorage36
Kenai Peninsula18
Fairbanks17
Juneau12
Kenai Fjords National Park7
Denali National Park6
Alaska Highway5
Denali National Park and Preserve5
Seward3
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve3
Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula2
Alaska’s Seward Highway2
Sitka2
Alaska (cruise)1

Alaska, USA

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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