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Glimpse AI Model: How Elorian Wants AI to Reason With Images, Not Just Describe Them

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably capable at writing, coding, summarising documents, and answering questions. Yet understanding what is happening inside an image or video remains a difficult challenge, particularly when a task requires careful observation rather than a simple description. Elorian, a Palo Alto-based AI startup, believes that part of the problem lies in how […]

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The Promise and Peril of Using Visual AI to Study Cities

How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” a new Routledge book from the MIT Senseable City Lab and Peking University, argues that visual AI can turn the images cities already produce into detailed data on traffic, emissions, greenery and public space. MIT research in New York used 331 traffic cameras to show congestion pricing cut traffic by about 10% but emissions by 16% to 22%. The authors also warn of surveillance and bias. This article explains the method, the findings, the risks and the questions to ask before deploying visual AI in public spaces.

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