Company

Elorian

elorian.ai

Palo Alto AI lab building visual reasoning models.

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HQ: Palo Alto, California, USA
Status: Private

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Elorian: $55.0M raised. 6 sources back the record.

Funding

$55.0M

Overview

Palo Alto AI lab building visual reasoning models. Its first model, Glimpse, reasons over images and video and targets robotics, science and media workloads.

Reality check

Glimpse launch (company-claimed, Oct 16 2026)

First model, a visual thinking model, released as a research preview with API access. Trained by a small team on a few hundred GPUs from an open weights base.

Target customers (company-claimed)

Robotics firms, scientific labs, media and creative companies with large video archives. Longer term, models that choose actions and directly control robots.

Verified record

Verified deployments: None on file
Active incidents: None on file

Key facts

Glimpse API pricing (company-stated)

$0.60 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens.

Glimpse benchmarks (company-run, Oct 2026)

Beats GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning, open-vocabulary counting, short-form video captioning and manipulation-event understanding; matches it on embodied reasoning.

Seed valuation (reported)

About $300M at the $55M seed round, before any product launch.

Data & sources

News coverage

Web sources

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Relationships

SStriker Venture PartnersInvestor MMenlo VenturesInvestor AAltimeter CapitalInvestor NNvidiaInvestor

Current leadership (1)

Andrew Dai Founder and CEOsecondary-verified

Founders (1)

Andrew Dai

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Elorian.

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Mentioned on (1)

Registry pages whose text names Elorian.

People (1)

Andrew Dai

Financial state

Total funding: $55.0M

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Funding rounds (1)

Seed2026-04-01
$55M
Investors: Striker Venture Partners (co_lead), Menlo Ventures (co_lead), Altimeter Capital (co_lead), Nvidia

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Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdOct 18, 2026
Added to the verified registry

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Sources (6)

Common questions

What is Elorian?

Palo Alto AI lab building visual reasoning models. Its first model, Glimpse, reasons over images and video and targets robotics, science and media workloads.

What does Elorian make?

Elorian has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Elorian builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

Is Elorian publicly traded?

No. Elorian is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

Who is the CEO of Elorian?

Andrew Dai is the ceo of Elorian, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in Elorian?

Elorian is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $55M in disclosed funding.

Where is Elorian headquartered?

Elorian is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

How much funding has Elorian raised?

Elorian has raised approximately $55M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

Who owns Elorian?

Elorian is privately held and venture-backed ($55M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

Is Elorian a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Elorian ranks in roughly the top 7% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is Elorian safe?

Elorian has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Unreviewed · 6 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-18

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-18

Sources by quality tier

4: unclassified; Unclassified source
2: secondary-industry-publication; Industry publication

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.