Visual Agents with Code Mode
Hey HN, We’ve been building out an API for ‘Visual ETL’ that we call vlm.run. We’ve been working with foundation models (GPT4o, Gemini) for a few months and kept running into failure modes like: - Hallucinations: even the best foundation models continue to hallucinate outputs for complex visual inputs, even when adhering to a schema. - Rate limits: frontier models like GPT4o are still too expensive or rate limited for high volume visual data. Our API is designed for production workloads which means speed, stability, monitoring and, if needed, private deployments. - Off the shelf schemas:…
Visual Agents with Code Mode launched on June 17, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,599 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Orion 2, our most capable visual agent, writes and executes vision programs on the fly – faster, cheaper, more reliable.
We are excited to announce Orion 2 : our most capable visual agent, now with code execution. Since our Orion 1 launch in November last year, our customers have run hundreds of thousands of requests spanning millions of tool-calls in production every month. Serving at this scale taught us that the bottleneck in production visual agents isn't just accurate perception – it's reliable orchestration. Orion 2 generates and executes computer-vision code on the fly, expanding capabilities well beyond Orion 1 while being significantly faster , cheaper , and more reliable . Try it now at chat.vlm.run , every example in this post is a live chat thread you can inspect and re-run. Complex computer…from vlm.run
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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Chat with Orion – a visual agent that sees, reasons and actsNov 2025 · chat.vlm.run · ▲22Hey 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…
Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computerJul 2026 · github.com · ▲937A few days ago I found myself trying out GLM 5.2 and was really positively impressed. The capabilities and security I was getting from this LLM are similar to those I've gotten from models like Claude or GPT, and this really surprised me. But then I thought, "I wonder how it would work on a normal computer like mine," and above all, "I wonder if it would work without going into OOM on a computer like mine." So I started working with the help of agents to test this possibility. I started converting the model to int4, understanding MTP usage, and if possible implementing DSA for long context.…
- WMWe made glhf.chat – run almost any open-source LLM, including 405B2024 · glhf.chat · ▲161
Try it out! https://glhf.chat/ Hey HN! We’ve been working for the past few months on a website to let you easily run (almost) any open-source LLM on autoscaling GPU clusters. It’s free for now while we figure out how to price it, but we expect to be cheaper than most GPU offerings since we can run the models multi-tenant. Unlike Together AI, Fireworks, etc, we’ll run any model that the open-source vLLM project supports: we don’t have a hardcoded list. If you want a specific model or finetune, you don’t have to ask us for it: you can just paste the Hugging Face link in and…
Spotlight by BackplanesJun 2026 · backplanes.com · ▲394Hola HN! Long time lurker, sometimes commentor, first time poster here. I’ve been working alongside my two co-founders and a few colleagues on a project I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share with you all! Like many of us, I’ve lived a tortured existence with AI coding (is it vibes?) over the past few months - I think November was a big moment with this. But, one thing I’ve noticed after building orchestration layer after orchestration layer is that the thing I always came back to was “what the hell is Claude Code actually doing?” Perhaps it’s because of the time Claude Code got…
TensorZero2025 · github.com · ▲307Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…
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