Silicon Valley's Hottest AI Startups
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xAI launches Grok Voice Agent in beta
Every account includes a free phone number to get started. We're launching today in beta: Try it now → https://t.co/e5rR2scELf Read more → https://t.co/M660JUeLID
GPT-5.6 Sol launches with robust safety stack
GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most robust safety stack yet. We strengthened real-time protections against high-risk cyber activity and repeated misuse, then spent weeks hardening the system with human red teaming and over 700,000 A100-equivalent GPU hours of automated testing.
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
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
Gemini Enterprise app enables campaign planning
Juggling social media channels for a big campaign launch is overwhelming. Use the Gemini Enterprise app to build a complete campaign plan in no time. From drafting posts and creating images to suggesting replies, it handles the manual work for you → https://t.co/5o5npS2kUM https://t.co/T5pn86RN3X
Cursor for iOS
Introducing Cursor for iOS. Build from anywhere by launching always-on cloud agents. Or remotely control agents running on your computer from the app. Composer 2.5 is 75% off in the app now through July 5. https://t.co/dFxQyrgmBb
Claude
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available. https://t.co/2AvmEjHIX8
GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 on Amazon Bedrock GovCloud
.@OpenAI GPT OSS and @NVIDIA Nemotron 3 open-weight models are now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), now with FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval.
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
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
Midjourney Medical
Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical" https://t.co/c14YcO6yaU
Qwen-Robot Suite
📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence. 🧭 Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility. • Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal, https://t.co/noumjTtTeS
Kotlin support comes to BlueJ 6.0
Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ 6.0! 💙 Students can learn introductory OOP using BlueJ’s familiar object-first workflow while writing clearer, more concise Kotlin code. Download BlueJ 6.0 and explore the onboarding materials: https://t.co/iadF0NxXAa https://t.co/pqL8sY9y78
Objection
Has the media lied about you? Now you can get former CIA and FBI agents to investigate and hold them accountable. Peter Thiel and @balajis are backing Objection. https://t.co/SR4fu31XlC
Airtable - Hyperagent
We’re giving away $10,000,000 to founders building agent-first businesses. Autonomous, proactive agents will run tomorrow's companies. We're backing 500 founders building them. The Founding 500. https://t.co/u8mxRWEXiT https://t.co/chZDnNOnlM
Subquadratic
Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA), And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is: - 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens - https://t.co/eZL0VOqBB4
Pika Labs launches Voxel-It Skill
Everything is better in blocks. Introducing the new Voxel-It Skill—upload any photo and watch it turn into a Minecraft-style world. The Skill voxelizes the background, object, or both, while keeping the people perfectly human. https://t.co/9HWYmsdQmd
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
Anduril funding history (retrospective)
ANDURIL HAS GONE FROM $88 MILLION TO $61 BILLION IN JUST 9 YEARS Here is every funding round in the company's history: 2017: $88M valuation (Seed) 2019: $1.04B valuation (Series B) 2020: $1.92B valuation (Series C) 2021: $4.6B valuation (Series D) 2022: $8.5B valuation (Series https://t.co/CfmKYLGllj
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