
Andrew Dai and Yinfei Yang, former leaders from Google Gemini and Apple, have launched Elorian to ta...
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The launch of Elorian by high-profile former Google and Apple leaders updates the player map for multimodal foundation models and signals a strategic shift toward native visual reasoning for agentic workflows.
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Andrew Dai and Yinfei Yang, former leaders from Google Gemini and Apple, have launched Elorian to tackle the core issue of visual reasoning for AGI. The startup is seeking a $50 million seed round to build native multi-modal models that process text, images, and video simultaneously. This approach targets a systemic evolution toward AI agents that can navigate software GUIs and physical logic without relying on text patches. It represents a significant shift from linguistic generation to direct world understanding as the key to AGI. ๐
