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

Introducing Expressive Mode for ElevenAgents - voice agents so expressive, they blur the line between AI and human conversations. This is an unedited recording of an agent empathizing with a customer at peak frustration. https://t.co/QT6abvmbir

Introducing GLM-5 from @Zai_org, the best-in-class open-source model for systems engineering and long-horizon agents. AI natives can now use GLM-5 on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for production-scale reasoning, coding, and agent workflows. https://t.co/GG67zcFRKT

🚀 Introducing Qwen-Image-2.0 — our next-gen image generation model! 🎨 Your imagination, unleashed. ✨ Type a paragraph → get a pro slides ✨ Describe a scene → get photoreal 2K magic ✨ Add text → it just works (no more glitchy letters!) ✨ Key upgrades: ✅ Professional https://t.co/rigOUYy81k

Perplexity Deep Research now runs on Opus 4.6, improving our existing state-of-the-art results on internal and external benchmarks even further. Available now for Max users, and gradually rolling out to Pro users. https://t.co/O3I98DNbSR https://t.co/B1iFAb3Wum

introducing prompt-to-workflow. now you can create entire node workflows from text instructions. try it now in Krea Nodes. https://t.co/T50nNFQTsL

We’re introducing skills in Glean today – a new way to package and reuse enterprise expertise – in support of the @OpenAIDevs skills launch. With skills, we saw accuracy on one of our tools jump from 73% to 85%. Let’s dive in. 👇 https://t.co/tb4S5NqKEN

Introducing HeyGen’s new native app inside @ChatGPTapp by @OpenAI Our latest Video Agent engine turns your prompts, script, or conversations into production-grade videos, complete with motion graphics, b-roll, and visual storytelling. Your videos now start where your prompts https://t.co/tvbgjYj8uL

Today we’re launching the Video Agent Challenge. Show us what you can create with Video Agent. → 8 categories → Submit by Feb 23 → Win 1,000 credits Show your process. Share your creativity. #VideoAgentChallenge Learn more here 👇 https://t.co/Nqpn52ioXl https://t.co/P3zQqOJNmr