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
Brand Skills in Claude
Today we're launching Brand Skills in Claude. This is a set of skills /gooseworks that gives Claude full context on your brand — logo, colors, voice, positioning — so anyone can make on-brand ads and content directly in Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, or Codex. Here's how it https://t.co/ilXfDQXF5f
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 partners with Eli Lilly to accelerate biologics discovery
We’re thrilled to announce our collaboration with @EliLillyandCo. We’ll be deploying Chai’s AI models to power biologics discovery across a broad set of drug programs at Lilly. This is a major step forward in pharma’s adoption of AI-native R&D. https://t.co/lF7fojq7uR
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
Claude Sonnet 5 now available in Cursor
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available in Cursor. On CursorBench, it's a meaningful step up from Sonnet 4.6: 57% vs. 49%. https://t.co/AQVHzrvqcR
Databricks Genie App Builder
Introducing Genie App Builder for AI-assisted creation with all Databricks context. Genie App Builder is a purpose-built AI app authoring tool with native awareness of your data assets, Unity Catalog semantics and workspace context. It's part of a Databricks suite of products https://t.co/ehfOpfvk9t
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
Singapore data residency now available for ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and Ele
Singapore data residency is now available for enterprises. Build and scale with ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI while keeping data and inference within Singapore. https://t.co/cMamnAhwsr
Nano Banana 2 Lite
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
GLM 5.2 Fast
We heard your feedback. You want to go faster. Introducing GLM 5.2 Fast The same model and quality as GLM 5.2 standard, now at 140 tok/s Flip one model ID → accounts/fireworks/routers/glm-5p2-fast https://t.co/jaYWA4lPi0
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 next-gen HyperFrames workflows and 9 AI-powered tasks
The next generation of HyperFrames skills is here 9 workflows your agent now actually understands a launch video. a music video. captions and overlays on video it knows which one you mean from context and routes there on its own get started below ↓ https://t.co/Kh0knvU163
Krea 2 Open Weights: Raw and Turbo released
today, we release the open weights of Krea 2. welcome Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo, an undistilled model from mid-training meant to be fine-tuned, and a fast distilled version with a wide aesthetic diversity. read the details below 👇 https://t.co/3ymzUL2bxv
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 raises Series B led by Ribbit Capital (total funding to date ~$100M)
We’re thrilled to announce our Series B round with $100,000,000 in total funding, led by @RibbitCapital , with participation from @sequoia , @conviction, @EvanticCapital, and @pearvc. https://t.co/8dW2PysCkO
Lovable Connectors: internal tool for connector icons
Building design tools in @Lovable Introducing our new in-house Connectors tool. Built entirely by one person. @arthurhilhorst from our team has been working on the new Connectors experience inside Lovable. His latest project is an internal tool that manages all connector icons https://t.co/FzFc1Oxgki
APEX-SWE — Mercor x Cognition
Introducing APEX-SWE, in collaboration with @Cognition. They see firsthand that real software engineering is not just writing code anymore. It's deploying systems, integrating with tools and debugging when things break. On APEX-SWE, every model fails to reliably solve the real https://t.co/T9lWW7WvnE
Midjourney Medical
Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical" https://t.co/c14YcO6yaU
Mistral OCR 4
Introducing Mistral OCR 4. It creates structure with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores in 170 languages. 🧵👇 https://t.co/jR78NkL4xK
Claude Sonnet 5 now available in Notion
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available in Notion. The most capable Sonnet yet. Smarter on code, more reliable for agents, better on longer tasks. https://t.co/IucCX3QIkP
GeneBench-Pro
We’re introducing GeneBench-Pro, a research-level benchmark for a harder kind of AI progress: how well agents can navigate messy biological data, choose the right analysis path, and make judgment calls that real computational research depends on. https://t.co/AsilnnSxnE
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
Perplexity adds Claude Sonnet 5 to Pro/Max
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers. You can also select it as an orchestrator model in Computer. https://t.co/UktzCrUZU6
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
RogoAI raises $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins
Today, we’re announcing our $160 million Series D funding, led by @kleinerperkins, with participation from @sequoia, @ThriveCapital, @jpmorgan, and @khoslaventures. 35,000+ financial professionals. 250+ institutions. One platform, purpose-built for finance. Thank you to our https://t.co/OkxE6769aK
Runway Introduces Agent Skills
Introducing Agent Skills. Build an ad campaign, create a commercial, localize your ads and more with a simple command. Type /, choose a Skill and Agent gets to work. Scale your marketing. On command. Get started at the link below. https://t.co/r6ZrLbKuNH
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 Series C funding
Announcing Series C We’ve raised $1.4B, valuing the company at over $14B With this capital, we will accelerate our mission to build omni-bodied intelligence 🚀 https://t.co/q0ArkRa8L8
Synthesia raises $200M Series E
BIG NEWS! We’ve raised $200M in Series E funding 🎉 This new phase is all about helping people work better — both with AI video and a series of new products we can’t wait to share with you soon. Huge thanks to our customers, investors, and everyone on this journey with us ❤️ https://t.co/6eASYMZ8pK
Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation
Excited to share that we raised an $800M series C at an $8.3B valuation! We're doubling down on open source AI 🫡 https://t.co/jR00fGsHhn https://t.co/7CDgZWwNe5
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