Glimpse in detail: visual-space reasoning, multimodal tools, and subagents, free to try
AndrewDai · x · 2026-10-17
Companion post with Elorian's full Glimpse announcement. Key points:
- Three core tasks: tracking identity through a moving pod, reasoning from another viewpoint, predicting physical consequences.
- Visual-space reasoning: brings visual representations into the reasoning process itself, revisiting and refining them mid-thought, with stronger grounding in objects and spatial relations.
- Agentic abilities: trained end-to-end to use multimodal tools (write code, transform images, watch videos) and to spawn subagents exchanging text, visual artifacts, and internal representations.
- Performance/cost: claims frontier-level multimodal results at or above GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 while being substantially smaller and cheaper, built by a small team.
- Availability: free on the chat interface, API available; a research preview aimed at robotics, science, and creative industries.
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