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Yinfei Yang

Co-founder and Chief Multimodal Architect, named behind the Glimpse listing on Anchor Terminal.

Yinfei Yang

Co-founder and Chief Multimodal Architect

Yinfei Yang is co-founder and Chief Multimodal Architect of Elorian, an AI lab building models that reason visually. At Apple he led multimodal work on the Apple Foundation Model, including the MM1 and MM1.5 model families. At Google Research he co-created the ALIGN image-text model and co-led the Universal Sentence Encoder and LaBSE.

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  • Glimpse D · Model APIs & inference

    Glimpse is Elorian's visual reasoning model, released as a research preview on 16 October 2026. It takes text, images and video and returns text, through Elorian's own API and chat app and through OpenRouter.

    Co-founder and Chief Multimodal Architect, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Yinfei Yang?

Yinfei Yang is co-founder and Chief Multimodal Architect of Elorian, an AI lab building models that reason visually. At Apple he led multimodal work on the Apple Foundation Model, including the MM1 and MM1.5 model families. At Google Research he co-created the ALIGN image-text model and co-led the Universal Sentence Encoder and LaBSE.

What does Elorian make?

Anchor Terminal lists Glimpse from Elorian. Glimpse is Elorian's visual reasoning model, released as a research preview on 16 October 2026. It takes text, images and video and returns text, through Elorian's own API and chat app and through OpenRouter.

Who has invested in Elorian?

The sources our research read name Striker Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, NVIDIA, 49 Palms and Jeff Dean.

How are Yinfei's tools graded?

Glimpse is graded D, 49 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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