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Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

Publisher description: according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

TechCrunch | Oct 16, 2026 | Aditya Mehta

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Today’s AI models, for all their skill with language and code, still can’t really see. Glimpse costs $0. 60 per million tokens in and $3 per million tokens out — cheaper than mid-level models like Sonnet and Sol but more expensive than lightweight models like Haiku and Luna. Next year, Dai said, the company aims to build “the world’s best visual reasoning model,” one that leads on every visual reasoning test.

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