Forbes AI 50 2026
The privately held AI companies named to Forbes AI 50 in 2026, tracked from official company X timelines for launch, funding, and major product announcements.
50 companies
Abridge
Tracked launches from @AbridgeHQ.
Value-prop ads in Claude
Introducing value-prop ads in Claude We made a skill /goose-video that teaches Claude to one-shot the cleanest ad format there is: your product, your value props, one at a time. Great marketing is easy to understand. This format is nothing but the reasons to buy — each one https://t.co/3xZotpHGAd
Dana
Introducing Dana. Agentic AI for the physical world. https://t.co/gKmAeiXuU8 https://t.co/3HZShkjXos
Baseten lands $1.5B Series F
We’re excited to announce our $1.5B Series F. Baseten exists to help companies own their intelligence and run AI products in production with speed, reliability, and control. As we enter this next chapter, three things are clear: 1. Customers like Abridge, Clay, Cursor, Decagon, https://t.co/At1I40iDNc https://t.co/96xCJBjYAh
Chai Discovery
Tracked launches from @chaidiscovery.
Cognition
Introducing Devin Desktop. Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor. https://t.co/D6rgfpoA88
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0 open-source model
The 4-bit quant is now available, making our first open-source agentic coding model small enough to be run on a Mac. Get the weights here: https://t.co/8amCVzzunE
Crusoe fastokens open-source tokenizer merged into SGLang
Most teams scale inference by adding more GPUs. Smart teams think about how tokens flow. 😎 Introducing fastokens — Crusoe's open-source Rust tokenizer, built with NVIDIA Dynamo, now merged into SGLang. Up to 50% faster TTFT for agentic workloads, measured on real production https://t.co/RkEYx9UO3h
Origin goes live
Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live. It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor. Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub. https://t.co/aqRHavAOQg
Cyera
Tracked launches from @cyera_io.
Databricks: Full-text search indexes in Beta
Full-text search indexes are now available in Beta on Databricks Runtime 18.2. Create a search index with a single SQL statement to accelerate substring and keyword queries, with no query hints or application changes required. Teams are already seeing 100x+ faster substring https://t.co/2vJO75Zr05
Decagon Labs
Introducing Decagon Labs. The research team behind the models and infrastructure powering 80% of Decagon’s model traffic. More in the thread. ↓ https://t.co/mAhX8B508y
Procedures in ElevenAgents
Introducing Procedures in ElevenAgents - packaged playbooks that let you define how agents operate. Just as employees follow standard operating procedures (SOPs), Procedures provide agents with a set of instructions to follow in common scenarios. https://t.co/99beiM4B33
EliseAI
Tracked launches from @ai_elise.
Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available on fal
Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available on fal The fastest most cost-efficient model in the Nano Banana family Two-second generation and editing at 1K across 14 aspect ratios Strong single and multi-image editing scores at a fraction of the cost https://t.co/kykXMqepJx
Fireworks AI launches GLM-5.2 model
GLM-5.2 has been the most popular new model on Fireworks this past week. @ArtificialAnlys confirms why: #3 overall on GDPval-AA (1524 Elo), #1 open weights by 116 points. Interest is showing no signs of slowing. Try it on Fireworks today → https://t.co/Y9fxZCNrbD https://t.co/RXwzzrJRnN
Gamma Imagine
Introducing Gamma Imagine! Gamma Imagine lets you create standalone visuals directly in Gamma. Select our new graphics format and generate polished logos, diagrams, infographics, and more that you can add to your presentations. All designs are matched to your theme and can be https://t.co/eiDAq6c8NS
Genspark Design
🎨 Introducing Genspark Design The next-gen AI for design and creation, powered by Claude Opus 4.7. From rough idea to professional design, no design background needed. - One tool for everything you design. UI prototypes, videos, HTML animations, posters — all in one place https://t.co/cE3Gk4HEFm
Glean launches Skills for packaging enterprise expertise
We’re introducing skills in Glean today – a new way to package and reuse enterprise expertise – in support of the @OpenAIDevs skills launch. With skills, we saw accuracy on one of our tools jump from 73% to 85%. Let’s dive in. 👇 https://t.co/tb4S5NqKEN
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
We’ve been working closely with the @harvey team on the launch of the Legal Agent Benchmark, a product focused on evaluating how open-weight models perform on long-horizon, real-world legal tasks. Check it out: https://t.co/yo5MaOULei
HeyGen launches new HyperFrames skills
This week we're launching new skills for HyperFrames, each built around a workflow Today is pr-to-video Nobody reads pull requests. Now agents can turn them into a short explainer video npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes New skill launching every day. Follow for more https://t.co/MHuTIf2fqt
Krea launches beta in Slack
today we introduce a beta of Krea in Slack. expand your team’s creative work with the latest AI models and an agent that adapts to your preferences. try it now at krea . ai https://t.co/q2HnRuU2VE
Legora Agent – execution engine of Legora aOS
Introducing the Legora Agent: the execution engine at the core of the Legora aOS™. Most legal AI responds to prompts. The Agent executes objectives. You give it a goal and it builds a plan, presents it for approval, then carries the work out end-to-end — selecting the right https://t.co/h7mJSDcFeu
Listen Labs
Tracked launches from @ListenLabs.
Lovable raises/open funding round at large valuation (unconfirmed)
We just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to help you achieve more than you ever thought you were capable of. https://t.co/fbjnxMUmmF
Mercor
Tracked launches from @mercor_ai.
Midjourney launches big-batch draft mode for V8.1
We've released a new big-batch draft mode for V8.1. This new mode lets you generate 24 lower resolution images at the half the price of a Standard res 4-image Midjourney Job. When you like an image just press "Vary" to get new versions at full resolution. Enjoy! https://t.co/AwOBP5rnfh
Mistral AI launches industrial AI solutions with Airbus, BMW, EDF deployments
We're taking on the hardest problems in the real world 🏗️🚚 🛫⚛️ Today at The AI Now Summit, held at the Louvre, we announced AI solutions for aerospace, automotive, energy, and physics. Deployed in production at @Airbus , @BMW, @EDFofficiel , and more. More below: https://t.co/L6Vq7RdABg
External Agents in Notion
Introducing External Agents in Notion: Claude + Cursor. Your team already collaborates in Notion. Now your favorite agents do too. Assign them tasks from a board shared with your whole team. @-mention them like teammates. Watch them run. https://t.co/HW2H9KUcyv
ChatGPT Work and Codex sync now in ChatGPT desktop app
You can now keep your work from other agents in sync with ChatGPT Work and Codex. Import projects, chats, skills, and plugins, review your import history, and opt in to automatic updates in Settings. Now available in the ChatGPT desktop app. https://t.co/G7OcCIvhj6
OpenEvidence launches Voice Mode
Between rooms. On rounds. Walking the corridor outside an OR. Charting one-handed during a phone call. This is where clinical questions happen. Today we're launching Voice Mode. OpenEvidence is the first multimodal medical AI: physicians can type, speak, or listen, on the same https://t.co/OPx9sB8C4u
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning available in Perplexity Agent API
.@NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in the Perplexity Agent API 🎉 An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for the high-volume execution layer of always-on agents: tool calls, validation, and subagent work. Pair Nemotron Lightning 3.5 with frontier https://t.co/5QuTfxOObO
Reflection AI
Tracked launches from @reflection_ai.
Replit Desktop
Now introducing Replit Desktop, a seamless way to multitask and get the best of Replit right on your Desktop. Supported for both Windows and Mac. https://t.co/1lYG4i4Xqx
Rogo Intelligence
Today, we're launching Rogo Intelligence. One of the accepted costs of knowledge work has always been that experience compounds in people, not software. Teams develop judgment, but that knowledge remains trapped in inboxes, individual memory, and disconnected systems. As more https://t.co/S25PC2ixDb
Runway Media Router
Introducing Runway Media Router. The first preference-optimized router for generative media. Instead of hand-picking a model for every request, you define what "best" means once, for cost, quality, or latency, and the router selects the right video, image, or audio model https://t.co/yeZdJAjHVj
SambaNova & Argyll Launch UK Sovereign AI Inference Cloud
UK sovereign AI is becoming reality. Together with Argyll , we’ve launched a sovereign AI inference cloud built on SambaNova’s full-stack AI platform — designed for performance, efficiency, and control without the trade-offs of traditional infrastructure. As AI adoption scales, https://t.co/x9oyDCTQYE
Kraken deploys utility-specific AI agents
Four weeks from project launch to live production. That's how fast Kraken deployed utility-specific AI agents that handle complex, regulated, domain-specific journeys for 1.3 million customer accounts. Read more: https://t.co/C6i16XwQ6F https://t.co/5wB9LenROZ
Skild AI
Tracked launches from @SkildAI.
Speak
Tracked launches from @speak.
Suno
Tracked launches from @suno_ai_.
Surge AI
Tracked launches from @HelloSurgeAI.
Synthesia
Tracked launches from @synthesiaIO.
Thinking Machines Lab
Tracked launches from @thinkymachines.
Together AI announces next milestone
Four years ago we made a bet on open-source AI. Today the numbers speak for themselves. Proud to announce our next milestone🚀 https://t.co/TWFUeWQCPN
World Labs expands Marble to everyone
Expand is now available to everyone! Extend your world in any direction you choose: around corners, into rooms, and beyond what you can see 👀 https://t.co/lpJkqgbTNr