Release history
2026-09-25 — Isaac 0.1 and 0.2 retired
- Removed:
isaac-0.1,isaac-0.2-1b, andisaac-0.2-2b-previewfrom the Perceptron API. Requests for them return HTTP 404 with error codemodel_not_found, and they no longer appear inGET /v1/modelsor MCP. Migrate toperceptron-mk1.5. - Updated: Requests for any unknown model ID now return 404
model_not_foundinstead of 400.
2026-09-03 — Multilook chat completions
- Added:
/v1/chat/completions/multilook— send a sharedcontextplus up to 16 independentprompts(and up to 8 completions per prompt) in one request. The context is prefilled once; reused prompt tokens are reported inusage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokensand billed at the cache-read rate ($0.0375/M). - Added: Multilook developer guide and API reference page.
2026-06-22 — Inline video frames
- Added:
video_framescontent part for chat completions — pass pre-decoded video frames inline (each with animage_urland atimestamp_ms) as an alternative to a singlevideo_url. Useful when you’ve already sampled frames client-side or need precise control over which frames the model sees.
2026-06-15 — Files API
- Added:
/v1/filesendpoints (upload, list, retrieve, retrieve content, delete) for uploading images and video once and referencing them by id across requests. - Added: Files developer guide and OpenAI-compatible API reference pages.
2026-06-09 — Detect API
- Added:
/v1/detectendpoint for direct grounded object detection — return boxes or points from textcategories, annotatedexemplars, or exhaustive detection, without building a chat-completions prompt. - Added: Detect capability guide and API reference pages with full request/response schemas.
2026-05-12 — Perceptron Mk1 launch
- Added:
perceptron-mk1— flagship VLM with image + video input, 32K context, and reasoning support. - Added: Video capability guides (Video Q&A, Video Clipping, ICL Video) plus matching cookbook notebooks.
- Added: Models tab with per-model spec pages (modality, context, pricing).
- Updated: Image capability guides rewritten for Perceptron Mk1 and the new SDK API surface.
2026-03-31 — Perceptron MCP launch
- Added: Guide covering Perceptron MCP setup, Perceptron MCP tools, and tasks best suited for Isaac-powered agents.
2025-12-10 — Isaac 0.2 2B preview + Isaac 0.2 1B launch
- Added:
isaac-0.2-2b-previewandisaac-0.2-1bimage VLMs (2B and 1B parameter, respectively). - Added: Guides covering thinking and tool calling flows.
2025-11-12 — Perceptron Platform launch
- Added: Guidance on API creation via Perceptron’s first-party API.
2025-09-17 — Initial public launch
- Added:
isaac-0.1image VLM (2B parameter). - Added: Perceptron SDK quickstart with first-run Python & CLI snippets.
- Added: Guides covering captioning, VQA, detection, OCR, ICL, streaming, and edge deployment.
- Added: Tutorials for manufacturing defects, OCR & Layout Extraction, and PDF document intake.
- Added: Best practices playbooks for prompting, latency optimization, and security.
- Added: API reference navigation with endpoint examples and CLI commands.