Show HN: Chat with Orion – a visual agent that sees, reasons and acts (chat.vlm.run)

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 computer-vision tools inside a unified chat-completions interface. You can chain visual steps, inspect results, and treat visual tasks the same way you treat text workflows. Here’s a quick demo [2].

What Orion can do today: - Detect objects, faces, people (with precise, visualized boxes) - Segment objects or salient regions interactively - Edit, remix, and re-imagine images/videos from prompts - Summarize visual content (images or videos) - Transform images: crop, rotate, upscale - Transform videos: trim, sample, highlight scenes - Parse and structure documents: pagination, layout, OCR, extraction

One unified “chat-completions”-like interface — no juggling multiple vision APIs. Check out the tours in the chat [3] or read the announcement [4].

API access opens next week. Happy to answer any questions — otherwise, feel free to try the tours and break things!

[1] Learn more about Orion: https://vlm.run/orion

[2] Promo video: https://youtu.be/cPJN4iZz6QQ

[3] Chat: https://chat.vlm.run

[4] LinkedIn announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sudeeppillai_ai-computervisio...