116 top startup and company launches for the week of August 8-14, 2026, ranked by verified X views on Launch Archive.
116 launchesWe've raised $1.1B to build AI that is owned and shaped by each of us. Check out the article published by the The New York Times that explains River AI's mission and where we're going next. Our first product is the River API which allows anyone to build custom agents and LLMs https://t.co/kKcDEDuUIz
In the past 6 months we’ve produced a cheaper, more efficient seeding material, trained a hyper-resolution AI weather model, and operated 100+ cloud seeding flights for the governments of Texas and New Mexico. Recast Systems is coming out of stealth. Here’s some of the research https://t.co/bOAjwkbDgD
Today we're launching Agent2Agent on @inkbox_ai. For your agents to behave like teammates, we gave them identities with their own email, phone, and iMessage. We've noticed a growing pattern: as agents become more autonomous, humans relay information between them. It's slow and https://t.co/VSdei89w65
Today we are announcing Corma, and our $60M seed round led by @sequoia. @CormaAI is building foundation models toward superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity. We do that because general AI is becoming exponentially more capable in offensive security, while it hasn't been https://t.co/DZxzjpJAlb
Introducing ChatCut Desktop! AI video editing is now LOCAL, FAST, and FREE. Connect Codex or Claude Code in one click - and tear through your editing backlog: - Edit talking heads and B-roll - Create stunning, fully editable motion graphics - Make and translate captions in any https://t.co/I1Z4IJn1hd
Today, we’re making Voice Agents available to everyone. With Voice Agents, you can build and scale intelligent, human-like agents that understand context, remember past conversations, and get better at achieving your business outcomes with every interaction. Our Voice https://t.co/tWJaQXRxQj
Introducing the Builder Grant Program Get up to $5,000 in seed capital, plus GTM & Product support for actively building on Base Learn more ↓ https://t.co/GNjKqIlDyr
Today we are excited to launch Tenor, backed by @ycombinator (S26). Tenor turns every employee into a manager of AI workers. Companies are spending billions on AI, yet treat it like a software subscription. Unlike software, labor gets a job, a manager, a budget, and a review. https://t.co/ZFh6brKRx8
Today, we announce our Series C Funding of $250M at $2.5B post money valuation to scale our Autonomous and Interceptor drone programs. This round of funding is co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic Technology Fund (ASTF) with participation by Interlagos, Valor Equity https://t.co/xSJtdmM8gM
We just raised $8M at a $80M valuation, to build agents for analysing robotics data. The round was led by @SquarePegCap, with angels from @Tesla, @Waymo, @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI and more. Alloy gives robotics teams and AI agents a shared memory over the data their machines https://t.co/bvPmdqWjnd
Today we're launching Luel Labs, our end-to-end multimodal data lab. Our research is powered by Luel's global network—leveraging 750,000+ contributors across 96+ countries to generate fully consented, quality-assured audio, video, and image data. First up — Breakthrough TTS for https://t.co/F94IMdB2fH
Today, we’re launching Osseus (YC S26), the intelligent development platform making robot development agentic. The age of robots won’t be unlocked by better AI models alone. Whether you’re a solo builder or an engineering team, building robots is still messy, fragmented, and https://t.co/hQKa3Pkhz2
More Stock Tokens are live. https://t.co/SHFzQgUNlP
India gets new eyes on orbit. 🇮🇳 Introducing MOSAIC, our AI-powered Wide Area Sensing Architecture, built to search, detect and track hundreds of objects simultaneously, turning observations into orbital intelligence. Mobile. Autonomous. Built in India for the scale of modern https://t.co/pr6Fu2iIdj
Today we're launching Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) @hbr_pbc . We build APIs for evaluating data quality, without training a robotics model. Data vendors use our API to search and analyze Physical AI data at scale, getting on-demand quality signals and metrics without managing https://t.co/bhtkyhAO08
Today we're launching Macro 1.0 — a new office suite for the intelligence age. Macro is a unified workspace for your entire company, your team and your agents. 1. Fully open source. Built in Rust + SolidJS. Self-host if you want. 2. Designed as a single system: email, https://t.co/Ev3uN8c2vX
Today we're introducing the AI Backlinks Marketplace. Show up in the AI answers your customers are already searching for. We've partnered with 40,000+ publishers, so you can order mentions in minutes instead of chasing outreach for months. You pick the sites. We do the rest. https://t.co/IqkmgCTHld
introducing rd-signal-2: a frontier classification model that is 1600x cheaper than GPT 5.6 Sol. free to try in @raindrop_ai, and available via a new API for training/hosting custom classifiers with Zero Data Retention. https://t.co/fYvtAa8mTR
Today we’re launching Vizard Agent, the first Video AGI. We believe every kind of video will eventually be made through one general agent. Start with footage, a URL, an existing video, or just an idea. Describe the outcome you want, and the agent figures out the work in https://t.co/pqSaf0yU5F
Introducing physical silver onchain. The oldest commodity now sits on @solana https://t.co/gX3rVJuhS6
Unlock new revenue streams with Tempo Earn. Put idle stablecoin balances to work by allowing end users to earn on balances they already hold, and you control how rewards are split. Get early access: https://t.co/WrM0ZcMMuO
Introducing Product f() - now in Private Beta! 🚀 An AI powered OS for product-led teams with Agents for every team, f() for every product framework as a skill, and multiple connectors via MCPs. You get every model from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta & many more. Brain https://t.co/1pNhJWTxAM
Today we're launching Spark Labs - an AI Learning laboratory. for people who want to experiment, build and actually understand how this stuff works. Welcome in : https://t.co/d2oqz2oCsp https://t.co/f1IFKEZiOa
Tron is live on Fireblocks Flow. Accept stablecoin payments and deposits from @trondao wallets. Settle in the stablecoin you choose. See how it works → https://t.co/i1kpsjiLqm https://t.co/bRPP5EIOcW
Today, we’re coming out of stealth with TensorScale (@TensorScaleAI ), and we're already running the fastest video inference in the world. MiniMax (@MiniMax_AI ) H3 — one of the leading open video models — now runs 10x faster and at half the cost on our inference stack. I’m
for years, I had opportunities to come to SV but coming here was never the dream the dream was to build something that mattered, something ambitious enough to consume a decade of our lives, something bigger than any one of us and I always knew that if I was going to take that https://t.co/0VNK9GTlJX
Model Y Performance now available in Saudi Arabia https://t.co/CDWa9xsbli https://t.co/qfCR8TswQr
Today we're announcing the public beta of a fully rebuilt Docker VMM. This is a new first-party virtualization layer underneath Docker Desktop, improving performance and stability across your Docker Desktop experiences. Now available on both Mac and Windows, starting with https://t.co/4PE6t9dEeS
Today, we are launching Ori Pi Run Pi directly on OpenRouter. One install, all your OpenRouter credentials, models, and environment set up for you, on Pi Get started at https://t.co/Cr9rVTSoV9 We also added extensions to improve the experience https://t.co/Jn2j1NQvTs
Today we're launching Ballet. The way ops does engineering work without engineers. Describe any workflow in plain language. Ballet writes the integration, runs it, and shows you every step. https://t.co/P24leI5PU0