Elorian releases Glimpse, a visual-reasoning model with a "visual scratch space"
Elorian, a Palo Alto startup that raised a $55M seed round, announced Glimpse as a research preview with API access and a waitlist for chat; the model repeatedly re-inspects images during reasoning using a mechanism it calls a "visual scratch space" (e.g., crop/zoom, frame selection, code measurements). Elorian says Glimpse was trained on a few hundred GPUs, is substantially smaller than frontier systems, is priced at $0.60 per million tokens in and $3 per million tokens out, and—according to the company—outperforms GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning on its benchmarks.