Elorian Glimpse: a 'visual thinking' model that keeps looking back at the image while it reasons

Glimpse is the first model from Elorian, a startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers. Most multimodal models look at an image once, turn it into tokens, and reason in text. Glimpse instead uses a 'visual scratch space' mid-reasoning: it zooms into a region, rewatches a stretch of video at a denser frame rate, or runs code to measure something. It was post-trained on an open-weight base model and is available through an API and a chat interface.

It's worth a look anywhere you have lots of visual data: robot footage, lab charts, media archives. Elorian says Glimpse beats GPT-6 Astra on four evaluations covering scientific chart reasoning, counting, short video captioning, and manipulation eventsVendor claim. Pricing is $0.60 per million input tokens and $3 per million output, 94% below GPT-6 AstraVendor claim.