Elorian's Glimpse vision AI takes a second look
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Elorian released Glimpse on Oct 16, 2026 as a research preview, available through its API and a chat app. It is trained to bring images and video into its reasoning, using tools that write code, transform images and rewatch video mid-thought: in one clip it moved from 8 fps to about 14 fps over a 0.9-second moment to tell a camera pan from a cut. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3 per million output, 94% below GPT-6 Astra ($10 / $50) and 85% below Claude Opus 5.5. By Elorian's own table it beats Astra on 4 tests (WGO Bench 42.70 vs 39.42, CharXiv-R, UGC-VideoCap, FSC-147) and ties on ERQA; as a robot planner on one LIBERO task both models succeeded, with Glimpse's planning costing $0.035 vs $0.249. A small team built it on a few hundred GPUs, post-training an open-weights base model. Caveats: Astra still wins 6 of the 11 shared tests (Video-MME v2 64.06 vs 56.68), and Elorian says looking closely "takes time, and tokens", so cheap per token is not always cheap per task.
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