Top startup launches for the week of August 22-31, 2026

BREAKING: Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. Build with Grok 4.6 on Foundry, where organizations can compare frontier AI models, run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and operate with enterprise security and governance controls. https://t.co/LnyNXdihJa

I ran the same task on Claude Code and DeepSeek's new agent harness. One cost $150. The other cost $2. Today we're launching https://t.co/k6mrHjfQ3C (@agentsky_dev), the "OpenRouter for Agents" — one API → Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek, Kimi, OpenCode, and every major agent in https://t.co/vksXCY64sc

Today we're launching Pause Every AI video editor is TRASH. Cuts, captions, b-roll junior-level garbage. None do the thousands of taste-level edits a senior editor makes. So I built the one that does. It's Pause https://t.co/oTdp5AR2CP

Today we’re launching Portable Computer on @NVIDIA DGX Spark. Portable Computer is a fully local version of Perplexity Computer, where the entire runtime: orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, agent harness all run on your local hardware. No cloud dependency. https://t.co/plVWz5PaAw

Today we're launching  Shotbase One place for everything Screenshots and Screen Recordings Capture, trim, annotate, share - no exporting between four tools Quick ideas, polished demos, team updates, social posts, and everything in between The capture tool your  Mac https://t.co/GpgsbOodfX

We just open-sourced our entire marketing playbook. After huge viral success with our Marketing OS running on Grok Bot, we decided to bring it to Claude. Introducing Marketing AGI by Maxfusion. You no longer need your first 5 marketing hires. 📁 Marketing Department ┃ ┣ 📁 https://t.co/fKBejQ4Cxa

We just killed…everything. Introducing Monid, the OpenRouter for agent tools. Today we crossed 4M agent transactions. And raised a $2.1M pre-seed to kill every subscription in the world. Your agents can now: > discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime > one connection to https://t.co/EsQoixZ7mi

Build an AI agent. Publish it.Earn from it. Introducing AITOPIA Agent Builder , create powerful AI agents without writing a single line of code. Build with no code Publish to the AITOPIA Marketplace Earn 70% revenue share from your agents Your idea. Your agent. Your revenue. https://t.co/EHWO51Ddu4

Today we're introducing Cursor for finding influencers. Just describe your ideal creator and Lightreel searches millions of TikToks + Reels to find the best creators. Stop using VA’s and outdated databases for creator outreach. https://t.co/HKjUGqmBAe

Introducing Index Today we're coming out of stealth with the largest and most diverse robot dataset to scale general purpose robots To date we've crossed 264,000 app downloads and uploaded 16 million videos https://t.co/1J1CCgbW6W

Our first office had two seats. On a good day, we made 100 calls. Today, Ringg handles more than 500,000 calls a day - which is basically 5,000 of our old "good days" happening every single day. We were forced to look closely at every detail and build the stack ourselves: https://t.co/YPZ2N422H7

Today we are announcing @KeenableAI, an AI-native index of the best human knowledge we have, starting with the open web. AI seems to know just about everything until you ask it about something you know deeply. The answer isn’t wrong, but it's just very average. We started https://t.co/g8DyJl53z4

What if your agents got better every time they ran? Today we're launching Reflexio — the self-improvement platform for AI agents. It learns from live production traffic, so every interaction makes your agent smarter. Right now, failures, corrections, and wins in production get https://t.co/J4LqTKDOvn

introducing firecrawl free keyless now your ai agents can search and scrape the web 100% free - state-of-the-art search accuracy (94.7% on simpleqa) - sub-3s scrapes, any page into clean markdown - no api key, no signup npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser https://t.co/59eFGu1Vhr

Introducing Ava AI The Shopify-native phone agent that actually works inside Shopify. 24/7 inbound support + abandoned-cart recovery calls that sound human and take real action. Comment “AVA” and I’ll send you free access https://t.co/Sc7u6nobtn

introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for intelligent voice interactions this new model: - seamlessly handles self-corrections - removes filler words to deliver clean, formatted text - understands your natural intent and speaking https://t.co/X76caWTLWV

Introducing Keiki by Orchid, the fastest way to launch customer-facing AI agents for the channels people already use. https://t.co/fKhy4OzOc1

New OSINT tool on Osintly. Rockstar Social Club Player Search Search by nickname or Rockstar ID and uncover public profile details, linked accounts, crews, friends, game history, and achievements. Free to use. Also available via API.

introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash this model brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers - extend scenes for longer storytelling - specify first and last frames - draft videos more efficiently in 360p - upscale up to 4K resolution - https://t.co/24Bmqz2k4Z

Introducing Sirius. We’re building an AI platform that helps subscription companies reduce churn, retain more customers, and better understand why customers leave. Already helping @promova_app, @higgsfield, @get_headway, and others improve retention and generate millions in https://t.co/rRfGe7B5El

Ethereum's EVM was sealed off from the world on purpose. We built a machine that isn't. Meet the GenVM, the engine that powers GenLayer. https://t.co/zYOj98SF0x

Introducing Voyage, the first platform to fulfill the promise of AI games. Voyage lets you one-shot an entire world with characters that feel alive, memory that lasts forever, and the structure and challenge needed to make an actually fun game. From the creators of AI Dungeon, https://t.co/K0NgHqRAoN

Today we’re announcing Lindy’s team meeting library. Just ask Lindy: "any call with a client goes in this folder," and all future meetings self-organize. Your team can query shared folders all day long. https://t.co/WilrTWk53q https://t.co/zsonQc59Lc

1/ Today, @Primero_ai is announcing its public launch and a $12m seed, one of the largest seed rounds in LatAm. Primero is the AI transformation company for Latin America's largest enterprises. https://t.co/A5SEeFIlO8

Introducing Monid, the OpenRouter for agent tools. Your agent shouldn't need another subscription just to make three API calls. We connect your agent to 1,700 APIs. It only pays for the calls it makes. > SEO, leads, ecom, stocks, search, video/image/music/3D gen, private https://t.co/M4PE3MTvEZ

AI ships 5 million apps a week. Many of those apps aren’t secure, or safe for people to use. Introducing BuildAnything: a free program that teaches you professional app development and turns you into a founder. https://t.co/WDzVYeYaMO

If you’re making content, and you're not using AI you’re fcked. Introducing Subscribr: the first all-in-one AI that writes your scripts, edits your videos and tells you what to post on your YouTube channel This is honestly insane. Watch: https://t.co/vqXzlVfx0n

We Just Killed LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Today, we’re introducing the traxy Agent. Sales Navigator might give you the “perfect” lead who hasn’t been active on LinkedIn in three months. Apollo gives you the same leads everyone else gets ZoomInfo charges thousands for the same https://t.co/1IAJbrnLyj

Human conversation is one of the hardest problems in AI. Today, we're introducing Sparrow-2, our state-of-the-art, real-time conversational understanding model. It gives Tavus PALs something most voice AI still lacks: understanding what’s happening in a conversation and https://t.co/5544uwI4O0

Introducing our new suite of purpose-built industry solutions: 1. Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services → https://t.co/LSOfcV14Hu 2. Gemini Enterprise for Legal → https://t.co/aKGf2axMbk Learn how these solutions unlock high-value workflows with domain-specific skills. https://t.co/lxoI6yo5bV