Top startup launches for the week of August 8-14, 2026

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work. https://t.co/uyfA97yo98

Introducing LTX-2.5, the world model the world builds on. One of the biggest upgrades yet to the model already powering film, robotics, and real-time workflows. Higher pixel fidelity, multishot scenes that hold together across cuts, and a pretrained foundation built to be https://t.co/bgnH6YMjQD

Grok Bot started as an internal prototype and has rapidly changed the way we work. Today, we're releasing a beta to the public. https://t.co/8RJYrep6kC

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own. Matic https://t.co/tPsUnLh76v

Cursor is now part of @SpaceX. Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help make Grok the world's most useful AI and improve Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, Cursor, and more. SpaceX has built some of the most inspiring and

Today, we kill the AI agent and introduce the AI employee: Lindy Teammate. It’s just like working with a real employee. Everyone on your team can simply hit it up on Slack and get 10x more done. Lindy also keeps learning, and becomes the self-updating brain of the whole https://t.co/QH9ZVzcjbn

Introducing GLM-5.3: Built to Code. Ready for Cyber Defense. - Top-tier coding and agentic capabilities, achieved through post-training on the 743B base model - A major leap in cybersecurity, setting a new standard among open models Tech Blog: https://t.co/ekQkO83jCv https://t.co/y3Y2AB0wxr

🧩 DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is now available in Developer Preview! 🔹 We’re opening it up to developers building agent harnesses worldwide and open-sourcing the codebase in MIT license. 🔹 Powered by the Cordis meta-framework, DeepSeek Harness is an agent harness built around one

We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀 🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains! 🔷 Flexible reasoning effort for V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent workflows, max for complex tasks. 🔷 Native OpenAI Responses API support, optimized for https://t.co/ZsGbUpiu1T

🚀 Seedance 2.5 is now available on AKOOL! Bring your ideas to life with the latest Seedance model and explore a new level of AI video creation. Ready to create? Try Seedance 2.5 on AKOOL today. https://t.co/TUoI70gJXC

Build. Share. Create with Wan. Agent Skills are now LIVE on wan video. Explore community-built Skills, or create your own custom workflow with Wan and share it with the world. From Short Drama Generators to MV Generators and more, turn your ideas into reusable creative https://t.co/TpGq4lSe1y

Now in preview: The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. Use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex where you already work and build, with your projects and browser workflows on supported Linux systems. https://t.co/OtsPt5N5QC

Introducing @NuphosAI, the AI-Native DevOps Workspace. We realized AI-native DevOps shouldn’t just be Claude Code or Codex with access to your AWS CLI. It needs a new workspace where humans and agents can investigate incidents, understand infrastructure, take action, and build https://t.co/ybZiGPrZDK

Introducing LTX’s newest open-weight model for realtime avatars - available on Reactor day 0. We're proud to partner with @ltx_io to make it easier than ever to build lip-synced, fully-voiced AI personas at cinematic quality with our API. Try it here: https://t.co/Kp9btWWuQm https://t.co/ZR6vjur2s1

We’re expanding our cybersecurity initiative Daybreak and introducing GPT-5.6-Cyber, a new model for advanced, authorized cybersecurity work. As the threat landscape evolves, we’re putting frontier intelligence in the hands of trusted defenders before attackers can deploy https://t.co/6o3GtxCxRA

Today, we’re launching Prodigy Research (YC S26), the frontier AI trading research lab. We’re training the world’s best foundation model for quantitative finance. Our AI quant outperforms a top 10% trader at Jane Street, and we've already achieved more than 100% returns in live https://t.co/gB7EE7hE0e

Today we are introducing Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on one million hours of human video. At this scale, for the first time, we discovered several new scaling laws: • world-action models exhibit scaling law on human data across four orders of magnitude, from 1000 https://t.co/wZamR0axzS

Introducing dots3-note preview — a small but mighty step toward long-horizon agency in real life. 🔹 280B MoE with 16B active parameters, a 512K context window, and multimodal understanding across text, vision, and audio 🔹 Introduces TEMPO, a new RL approach for long-horizon https://t.co/PxHJInGXDS

The world has identified verifiable AI as a missing civilization-scale primitive. The core technical obstacle, practical zero-knowledge proofs, was considered impossible. We solved it. Today, we are launching @attestablecom, the AI Integrity Company, and announcing a $20M seed https://t.co/aiV2CY1j9v

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

Introducing Octen Model Gateway. One API key. Models and search together, with the fastest responses in the world. Thousands of developers have joined in the last 2 weeks. To say thanks, everyone gets a 15% rebate on all consumption. Try it now in the comments: https://t.co/sIvdTb6aUM

Introducing Unsloth Desktop 🦥 The first desktop app to run and train models locally. • Open-source. Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux • Supports MLX, diffusion image/video, audio, GGUF • Connect Claude Code and Codex to local LLMs • 50% more accurate, self-healing tool calls + https://t.co/vjTFB1e5IQ

Introducing Assembly Studio. The first AI app builder designed to increase your revenue. Comment something you want us to build and we'll build it for FREE. https://t.co/lQobIxhEOo

Imagine Image 2.0 now available on our API: precise editing, infographics, ads, game assets, UI/UX mockups, storyboards, and more. Try it on our playground: https://t.co/u3faJUB79A https://t.co/sIXIWKMw0M

hey! super excited to announce human behavior v2 ;) we raised $5M from @paulg, @ycombinator, @generalcatalyst, @vercel to put your company on autopilot product analytics told you what happened … human behavior now just handles it https://t.co/aKGAfLbm2R

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

BREAKING: @MoneyGram Ramps is live on Solana. 60M+ customers, nearly 500,000 retail locations, 170+ countries. One of the world's largest payments networks is now a single API away for every builder on Solana. https://t.co/TSOhIpBjvz

Today we're launching Grok Bot, a general knowledge work assistant with its own virtual machine that can help do all the stuff you'd rather not do. https://t.co/8QeN4gI9Rc

Today, we are launching Serpier 2. The only platform that connects SEO, AI visibility and execution in one workflow. Search has changed. People no longer only search on Google. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity which products to buy, which companies to trust and https://t.co/OioLVcFuVU

strcUSX is live in YieldVault - the first Solana-native STRC product with senior protection. @Strategy's STRC pays a ~12% cash dividend. strcUSX brings that stream onchain & splits it in two: - Senior: paid first, toward a ~7% target. - Junior: first-loss, with a variable ~20% https://t.co/yfHUfai6Rx