# Elorian Ai

> Elorian AI, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based AI research and product lab founded in 2025 that develops multimodal models designed to reason natively through visual information, spatial relationships, physical constraints, and design intent; its first product is Glimpse, a visual-thinking foundation model available via API and chat interface.

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## At a glance

- Website: https://elorian.ai
- Team based in: Palo Alto (elorian.ai and 1 more)
- Founded: 2025 (elorian.ai and 1 more)
- Founders: Andrew Dai, Yinfei Yang, Seth Neel
- Industry: Software Development
- Employees: 28 (employees and founders, investors not counted; elorian.ai and 1 more)
- Total funding: $55M (elorian.ai and 1 more)
- Backed by: Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, NVIDIA, 49 Palms, Prominent AI researchers including Jeff Dean
- Seen in its site's code: Google Workspace (MX smtp.google.com) (read 2026-11-03)
- Email: contact@elorian.ai

## What it sells, to whom

- Elorian AI, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based AI research and product lab founded in 2025 that develops multimodal models designed to reason natively through visual information, spatial relationships, physical constraints, and design intent; its first product is Glimpse, a visual-thinking foundation model available via API and chat interface. ([elorian.ai](http://elorian.ai/), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/team), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/models))

## Why it stands out

- Competes with: OpenAI multimodal/frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol., Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5., Google Gemini 3.8 Flash., Other relevant visual/world-model efforts mentioned in coverage include World Labs’ Atlas and Google Genie 4. ([elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/), [latent.space](https://latent.space/p/elorian/))

## Products and services

- **Glimpse**: Elorian’s first visual-thinking foundation model and research preview, available through its platform, API, and interactive chat interface. ([elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/models), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/support))
- Enterprise offerings include volume access, custom evaluation on customer data, deployment support, and procurement review. ([elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/models), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/support))
- Longer-term research targets include multimodal-native pretraining, models that understand and generate, and direct action outputs for robots. ([elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/models), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/support))

## Customers and markets

- **Customers**: Target customer segments identified publicly: robotics companies, scientific laboratories, media and creative companies, technology companies with large video collections, engineering organizations, defense-related applications, and game developers. ([elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/models), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/support))
- **Markets**: Robotics firms ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/), [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elorian-ai-inc/c8985274-7883-43ce-8135-c88e1f6f8832), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse))
- **Markets**: Scientific labs ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/), [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elorian-ai-inc/c8985274-7883-43ce-8135-c88e1f6f8832), [elorian.ai](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse))

## Team

- Andrew Dai, Co-founder & CEO
- Yinfei Yang, Co-Founder / Chief Multimodal Architect
- Seth Neel, Co-founder & Founding Researcher
- Richard Zhang, Founding Researcher
- Michelle Ling, Business Operations Lead

Backed by: Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, NVIDIA, 49 Palms, Prominent AI researchers including Jeff Dean

## Latest news

- 2026-07-28 · [Elorian AI | Company Overview & News](https://www.forbes.com/companies/elorian-ai/) (forbes.com)
- 2026-07-16 · [How Elorian AI pulled off a $300M pre-seed valuation | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/podcast/how-elorian-ai-pulled-off-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation/) (techcrunch.com)
- 2026-04-13 · [Wilson Sonsini Advises Elorian on $55 Million Seed Financing as Company Emerges from Stealth | Wilson Sonsini](https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/wilson-sonsini-advises-elorian-on-dollar55-million-seed-financing-as-company-emerges-from-stealth.html) (wsgr.com)

## Where to find more

- [This page in Markdown, for agents](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/company/elorian.ai.md)

## Decision makers

- [Andrew Dai](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/andrew-dai--elorian.ai.md), Co-founder & CEO
- [Yinfei Yang](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/yinfei-yang--elorian.ai.md), Co-Founder / Chief Multimodal Architect
- [Seth Neel](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/seth-neel--elorian.ai.md), Co-founder & Founding Researcher

Work emails and direct phones come with a Leadbay account: https://wow.leadbay.ai/?register=true

Where it comes from: 21 sites read (elorian.ai, linkedin.com, techcrunch.com, latent.space, bloomberg.com, app.dealroom.co, aitechscene.com, foundermag.co, …).

## Best angle

2026-10-16 · Product: Proud to announce our first foundation visual reasoning model. You can try it out today platform.elorian.ai (1 source)

## Best way in

- Message on X: The company's own account

## Signals: what happened

- 2026-10-16 · Product: Proud to announce our first foundation visual reasoning model. You can try it out today platform.elorian.ai (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_proud-to-announce-our-first-foundation-visual-activity-7516911165470564353-HwNF))
- 2026-10-07 · News: If leading models can pass the bar exam, why can’t they figure out what's happening in a painting? (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_if-leading-models-can-pass-the-bar-exam-activity-7513738104168439808-asGX))
- 2026-07-28 · News: Elorian AI (1 source: [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/companies/elorian-ai/))
- 2026-07-28 · Partnership: Elorian has been named to the 2026 Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, recognizing 20 venture-backed companies Forbes and TrueBridge Capital Partners believe are most likely to become unicorns. (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_forbes-next-billion-dollar-startups-2026-activity-7487981196136812544-E6GJ))
- 2026-07-23 · News: What will it take to advance visual AGI? (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_the-lab-builders-are-leaving-andrew-dai-activity-7486126662615478272--vSV))
- 2026-07-16 · Fundraising: How Elorian AI pulled off a $300M pre-seed valuation (1 source: [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/podcast/how-elorian-ai-pulled-off-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation/))
- 2026-07-16 · Interviews: How Elorian AI pulled off a $300M pre-seed valuation with Andrew Dai (1 source: [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNyyFUgnBY))
- 2026-07-03 · News: Elorian AI Pursues Visual Reasoning Breakthroughs (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewdai_elorian-moving-ai-beyond-language-activity-7475981512405090304-CrNH))
- 2026-06-17 · News: We're excited to welcome Dustin Tran as Elorian's Chief Reasoning Architect. (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_were-excited-to-welcome-dustin-tran-as-elorians-activity-7473146179384696832-Y3i7))
- 2026-05-17 · News: Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization Under Heavy-Tailed Noise (1 source: [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17394))
- 2026-05-03 · Interviews: Elorian is building the foundation of visual reasoning (1 source: [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlvfNpOMeOY))
- 2026-04-13 · Fundraising: Wilson Sonsini Advises Elorian on $55 Million Seed Financing as Company Emerges from Stealth (1 source: [wsgr.com](https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/wilson-sonsini-advises-elorian-on-dollar55-million-seed-financing-as-company-emerges-from-stealth.html))

## Working on now

- Launched Glimpse, its first visual reasoning model, as a research preview with API access and a chat interface on October 16, 2026
- Building the world's best visual reasoning model; aiming to lead on every visual reasoning test by next year
- Focusing on visual thinking that stays grounded — models that reason in visual space, revisit and refine internal visual representations, and use multimodal tools to write code, transform images, and watch videos
- Working toward direct action outputs for robots, calibrated scene reconstruction, and multimodal-native pretraining
- Publishing research benchmarks: DecoyCount (with Mercor) and Humanity's Sixth Sense (with Scale AI)
- Hiring aggressively post-Glimpse launch, including a Model Safety Contractor and multiple engineering/research roles
- Speaking at AI conferences (ICLR 2026, ICML 2026, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, Smart AI Summit)

From: [Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/), [Blog — Elorian](https://elorian.ai/blog/), [🚀 Fresh off our Glimpse launch at Elorian, we’re growing the team! | Richard Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-zhang-1b358a39_model-safety-contractor-activity-7516938486059524096-Wsff), [Introducing Glimpse — Elorian](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse), [Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning](https://lspace.beehiiv.com/p/elorian), [AI Engineer World's Fair 2026](https://nextjs-conf-scheduler.sentry.dev/speakers/spk_andrew_dai)

## Summary

Elorian is a Palo Alto-based AI research lab focused on native visual reasoning, or the ability of AI to understand spatial relationships and physical constraints directly from images and video without relying on text-based descriptions. The company was co-founded by Andrew Dai, Yinfei Yang, and Seth Neel. Elorian sells access to its first model, Glimpse, via API and a chat interface. It targets industries with high-volume visual tasks, including robotics, scientific research, media, and e-commerce. The company raised $55 million in seed funding from Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Nvidia, 49 Palms, and Jeff Dean. Key competitors include OpenAI, Google, Reka, and World Labs. In October 2026, Elorian released Glimpse as a research preview. The model features a visual scratch space allowing it to crop images, pull video frames, and run code mid-reasoning to improve accuracy in tasks like object counting, scientific chart analysis, and robotics planning. It is positioned as a cost-effective alternative to larger frontier models for specific visual workflows.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/ "Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them | TechCrunch"
[2]: https://elorian.ai/ "Elorian — Frontier Intelligence"
[3]: https://latent.space/p/elorian/ "Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning — Latent Space"
[4]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/ex-google-deepmind-researchers-debut-startup-called-elorian-focused-on-visual-ai "Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Debut Startup Called Elorian Focused on Visual AI - Bloomberg"
[5]: https://app.dealroom.co/companies/elorian "Elorian company information, funding & investors | Dealroom.co"
[6]: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-researcher-raised-at-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation-before-launching-a-product/ "How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product | TechCrunch"
[7]: https://www.aitechscene.com/companies/elorian "Elorian | AI Tech Scene"
[8]: https://foundermag.co/launches/elorian-glimpse/ "Elorian's Glimpse Is a Visual Reasoning Model That Crops, Rewinds and Measures While It Thinks · FounderMag"

## Sources

- [Elorian AI's website](https://elorian.ai)
- [Blog — Elorian](https://elorian.ai/blog/)
- [🚀 Fresh off our Glimpse launch at Elorian, we’re growing the team! | Richard Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-zhang-1b358a39_model-safety-contractor-activity-7516938486059524096-Wsff)
- [Introducing Glimpse — Elorian](https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse)
- [Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning](https://lspace.beehiiv.com/p/elorian)
- [AI Engineer World's Fair 2026](https://nextjs-conf-scheduler.sentry.dev/speakers/spk_andrew_dai)
- [Excited to be speaking on the How We Know If a Model Is Any Good panel at Smart AI Summit on Sept 3 with Andrew Dai (CEO, Elorian AI), Anand Kannappan (CEO, … | Saurabh Sharma](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saurabhs_excited-to-be-speaking-on-the-how-we-know-activity-7499932276600913920-zmU6)
- [Wait, gyms in Brazil are called "Academia"?! 🇧🇷🏋️♂️ | Richard Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-zhang-1b358a39_iclr2026-iclr2026-elorianai-activity-7455370258082615297-yCAH)
- [Looking forward to seeing everyone at Elorian AI's first ICML Int'l Conference on Machine Learning event! I'm sure the food will be great at our rooftop dinner co-hosted with Ricursive Intelligence, Striker … | Elorian AI](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elorian-ai_looking-forward-to-seeing-everyone-at-elorian-activity-7480060741098688512-IF6G)
- [Team — Elorian](https://elorian.ai/team)
- [Elorian - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/elorian)
- [elorian ai](https://linkedin.com/company/elorian-ai)