# Elorian: AI company

Canonical ID: `e8592b04-680a-4e60-bbd3-58362d8303b6`

## Key facts

- **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.
- **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](/brains/gpt-6-astra.md) on scientific chart reasoning, open-vocabulary counting, short-form video captioning and manipulation-event understanding; matches it on embodied reasoning.
- **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.
- **Seed valuation (reported):** About $300M at the $55M seed round, before any product launch.

- **Slug:** elorian
- **Status:** private
- **HQ:** Palo Alto, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 55000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Andrew Dai](/people/andrew-dai.md) Founder and CEO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Andrew Dai](/people/andrew-dai.md)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Elorian?

[Palo Alto](/locations/palo-alto-ca.md) 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.

### 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](/locations/palo-alto-california-usa-2.md).

### 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.


## Sources (6)

1. https://elorian.ai/blog/introducing-glimpse · 2026-10-16
2. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/ · 2026-10-16
3. https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/wilson-sonsini-advises-elorian-on-dollar55-million-seed-financing-as-company-emerges-from-stealth.html · 2026-04-13
4. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-researcher-raised-at-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation-before-launching-a-product/ · 2026-07-16
5. https://elorian.ai/
6. https://x.com/AndrewDai/status/2111142161584628060 · 2026-10-16

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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