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Glimpse
● liveLive — Oct 16; Elorian's first model, a visual thinking model for images and video, in research preview; API ids elorian-1 and elorian-1-agent (the agent runs Python and web search on its own), plus a free chat tier; $0.60 / $3 per 1M, $0.06 cached input, from Elorian's platform; on Elorian's own table it beats GPT-6 Astra on 4 of 11 shared evals and trails on 6; no third-party score yet. On the board as live since 2026-10-16 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.
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Timeline
Elorian, the visual-AI startup that former Google DeepMind researchers launched in April, released its first model on October 16. Glimpse is what Elorian calls a visual thinking model: it reasons over images and video directly instead of first turning them into text.
Glimpse: quick answers
Is Glimpse out?
Yes. Glimpse is live and has been since October 16, 2026.
When was Glimpse released?
October 16, 2026.
Who makes Glimpse?
Elorian.
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