Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning

DecoyCount results Elorian emerged from stealth in April with $55M in seed funding, co-led by Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures and Altimeter Capital. Now, in partnership with AI data company Mercor, Elorian is announcing the DecoyCount benchmark, which tests whether language models genuinely count objects or rely on visual shortcuts and substitution heuristics.