Top startup launches for the week of April 22-30, 2026

🚀 Introducing Canva AI 2.0: our biggest product launch to date, and the most significant shift for design in a decade. For the first time, imagination is the starting point. Read more: https://t.co/PnOS1dGavJ https://t.co/i4Neq0i5MX

Introducing Silico: the platform for building AI models with the precision of written software. Silico lets researchers and engineers see inside their models, debug failures, and intentionally design them from the ground up. Early access is open now. 🧵(1/10) https://t.co/mR4UYkjV6o

GPT-5.5 is now available on Perplexity for Max subscribers. GPT-5.5 is also rolling out as the default orchestration model in Computer for both Pro and Max subscribers. https://t.co/Iqno7W4iQw

Have you visited Git City yet? This open source project turns your GitHub profile into a pixel art city. Your commits, repos, and stars build the skyline. 🌃 https://t.co/Gi8E3jK4wt https://t.co/k5wxG9XlOR

Introducing Agent Templates - pre-configured ElevenAgents you can deploy across your business. The best teams run agents across support, sales, and operations - value compounds with every use case. Choose from 50+ templates with predefined prompts, workflows, and integrations. https://t.co/6JpcEoDpWg

Congrats to @10x_Science on their $4.8M seed! They're building AI for molecular-level protein characterization, a process that today requires specialized scientists spending weeks or months manually interpreting complex data. Their platform delivers the same insights in minutes. https://t.co/JFao3JUVfW

🚀Echo-2 is here - our new world model! These aren’t videos. These are 𝟑𝐃 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬. Generated from a single image. - Stunning visual quality. - Real-time rendering. - Interactive camera control. - Physically grounded. 🧵More details👇 https://t.co/Y6NkSMvPio

Today we are announcing a $10M Series A and the launch of @StudiosSen52315 Over the last 6 months, our AI dealer became 10x more popular than its human equivalent, with better retention and player satisfaction. Now we’re bringing that to casino operators globally: https://t.co/We3bHLrPNf

To truly understand AI’s economic impact, we’ll need to collect much more qualitative data like this. That’s why we’re launching the Anthropic Economic Index Survey. Each month, we’ll ask Claude users how AI is changing their work. For more details, see: https://t.co/kRdvr5Ohe4

Kinect (@trykinect) turns every e-commerce store into an AI-powered storefront that actually sells. As customers shop, online shopping assistants leverage what each customer is looking for in the moment, adapts to every visitor in real time, captures buying intent data they’ve https://t.co/x1CVz3UUcp

Kimi K2.6, the new state-of-the-art open-weight model from Moonshot, is now available for Pro and Max subscribers. https://t.co/Cn2mRh8525

OpenWork (@getopenwork) is the open source alternative to Claude Cowork. Roll out AI compliantly across your non-technical org at scale. Use your existing agents, deploy on-prem, and use any LLM provider you want. They already have 14k stars on GitHub with over 150k downloads. https://t.co/bc90Z4EEZf

We (@astorinvest) raised a $5M seed led by Monashees, with participation from Goodwater, Gilgamesh Ventures, and other incredible investors. In less than two months after launch, thousands of users have connected over $200M in assets to our platform. We're just getting started. https://t.co/7f2UWPkqt5

🚀 Introducing FlashQLA: high-performance linear attention kernels built on TileLang. ⚡ 2–3× forward speedup. 2× backward speedup. 💻 Purpose-built for agentic AI on your personal devices. 💡Key insights: 1. Gate-driven automatic intra-card CP. 2. Hardware-friendly algebraic https://t.co/4Vhyyw5RuB

Introducing Plan Mode. Because a prompt without a plan is just a wish. In plan mode, your agent shows its work in a read-only sandbox before touching anything. Just plan → approve → execute. https://t.co/us2b4c3xXp

We're excited to launch Delegate. An agent you delegate work to and move on with your life. https://t.co/tiaQI0oyHm

Introducing Qwen3.6-Plus from @Alibaba_Qwen, a 1M-context model built for real-world agents, agentic coding, and multimodal reasoning. AI natives can now use Qwen3.6-Plus on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for production-scale agent workflows. https://t.co/s4Ysm1ZsKt

Announcing Knowledge Catalog: the universal context engine for your enterprise, helping agents execute complex tasks with accuracy. Learn more → https://t.co/3SG2v8I02X #GoogleCloudNext https://t.co/uFH3luVaf1

.@OpenAI GPT-5.5 is now available on Databricks, with Codex coding workflows and model inference fully governed through Unity AI Gateway. With GPT-5.5 on Databricks, you can: - Power coding workflows with Codex or other coding agents - Build custom agents grounded in enterprise https://t.co/EwAP7qpilP

You asked, we delivered! Supabase is now available as a Codex plugin! https://t.co/AaFFTOXooL

we killed our $20/month subscription. @omnaraai is now free. for everyone. and the desktop app just dropped. one command center for ai coding agents across desktop, web, mobile, and watch. https://t.co/LGpJE2Uxij

ANNOUNCING LUMIAN We raised $3 million to rebuild how Amazon brands are run in the age of AI. Faster. Better. For a fraction of what traditional agencies charge today. Bold claim? Let me prove it. RT + comment “LUMIAN” and I’ll get our latest AI agent to do a FULL AUDIT on https://t.co/WjCGqhs3vk

New ways to add references when generating and editing images with AI → Copy/paste → Add directly from a selection → Drag and drop files Rolling out over the next week https://t.co/DBK8FxoQap

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

Announcing World Model Accelerator, fal's new product: https://t.co/Rjgd4lz9uZ We've spent years building the inference layer for generative media. In 2023, we shipped 30 FPS, low-latency, action-controlled diffusion APIs, years before anyone else. Fast forward to today and https://t.co/rVdMUx1Rnq

Today, we’re launching Soren (backed by YC). Over the past few years, AI has transformed what humans can build, understand, and automate. But in many of the world’s most important sectors (finance, legal, and healthcare), the impact has remained limited. These industries rely https://t.co/A7tj1iriEk

🚨 GPT Images 2.0 is LIVE on BigMotion Prompts hit cleaner, details go way harder, and it’s super fast Dropping 10 FREE SUBS to celebrate Like, repost & comment "IMAGES" to get one 🤫 Winners in 24 hours ⏰ https://t.co/EF3zVGeAtV

Introducing Bevel 3.0, our biggest update yet. Featuring an All-New Bevel Intelligence, Health Records, and Biological Age. Your biometrics, health records, and personal context, finally connected in one intelligent system. https://t.co/2sKe131tzF

Super excited to finally announce our raise! (We're hiring) We'll now be able to move much faster on these fronts: - increase our infra+capacity to serve a huge growth in demand - build out the team as we continue to develop new security agents for new verticals https://t.co/94BxWSyxcj

Building apps is easy- keeping them running isn’t Introducing Replit Application Monitoring Replit Agent now watches your app in production, investigates issues, and helps fix them- so you don’t have to https://t.co/NP8blat8aw