Elorian unveils Glimpse visual model rivaling Astra
According to a post by Jeff Dean citing Andrew M. Dai on X, Elorian launched Glimpse, a visual thinking model claiming competitive performance with Astra on public visual reasoning benchmarks.
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On October 16 2026 Jeff Dean highlighted recent work by Andrew Dai and the Elorian team on a new visual thinking model called Glimpse.
Glimpse is described as the first visual thinking model from the group that addresses prior shortcomings with single-image models on dynamic scenes or changing angles while delivering competitive frontier performance versus Astra on key public visual reasoning benchmarks according to the announcement.
Jeff Dean
@JeffDeanChief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research. Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, ...