According to @goodfellow_ian on X, former Google Brain/DeepMind researcher Andrew M. Dai announced the launch of ElorianAI, described by @AndrewDai as the first multimodal reasoning lab founded and led by former LLM pretraining, data, and multimodal leads. As reported by @AndrewDai, cofounders include Yinfei and Seth, and the team is focused on advancing multimodal reasoning beyond text-only LLMs, with an introductory video linked for details. According to the same source, this positioning targets frontier model capabilities that integrate vision, language, and potentially audio, creating business opportunities in enterprise search with visual-text fusion, agentic workflow automation across documents and images, and safety-aligned data curation for multimodal training pipelines.