
Chat with Orion
Visual AI Agent for interacting with image, document, video
What it does
Introducing VLM Run Orion — a visual agent that sees, reasons, and acts. Frontier VLMs can describe images but fail at real visual tasks. Orion unites VLM reasoning with precise vision tools to detect, segment, read, and analyze any image, video, or document. It executes multi-step visual workflows reliably, bringing true action-driven visual intelligence to a simple chat interface.
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Hey HN! We’re excited to share Orion [1] — our new visual agent that sees, reasons, and acts across images, videos, and documents. Frontier VLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini) can describe what they see, but they can’t reliably act on visual inputs. Ask them to detect objects, segment images, or chain visual steps — they’ll fail in surprisingly inconsistent ways. High-res images collapse to ~1024px. And the visual AI ecosystem is fragmented across separate APIs for image understanding, OCR, image-gen, video-gen, etc. We built Orion to fix this. Orion combines VLM reasoning with reliable…

- VAVisual Agents with Code ModeJun 2026 · vlm.run · ▲8
Rather than calling tools one by one, Orion 2 generates a program and runs it end to end, meaning fewer round-trips and lower latency. You can try it out at https://chat.vlm.run When orchestration is code, every workflow is composable, inspectable, and deterministic. We put together a short Orion 2 demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzhXcNAYQ-0



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