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Perceptron Mk1 brings video understanding AI at 80 to 90 percent lower cost than top rivals
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Published on 12 May 2026

It can track objects through occlusions in live streams
Perceptron Inc. has launched Mk1, a proprietary video analysis reasoning model designed for temporal continuity and physical understanding, including object dynamics and analog reading. The company claims performance leadership on spatial and video benchmarks while pricing the API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens—80 to 90% cheaper than major frontier models.
- Mk1 targets physical AI: cause and effect, object dynamics, physics reasoning
- Runs native video with temporal continuity up to 2 FPS and a 32K context window
- Benchmarks show top scores in spatial and temporal reasoning tasks
- Enterprise-focused pricing undercuts rivals by 80 to 90% via API rates
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