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

We just released 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝-𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜, a repo for coding agents. React performance rules and evals to catch regressions, like accidental waterfalls and growing client bundles. How we collected them and how to install the skill ↓ https://t.co/kfLSbKl15X

Announcing Series C We’ve raised $1.4B, valuing the company at over $14B With this capital, we will accelerate our mission to build omni-bodied intelligence 🚀 https://t.co/q0ArkRa8L8

🚀 Introducing Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker – advancing the state of the art in multimodal retrieval and cross-modal understanding! ✨ Highlights: ✅ Built upon the robust Qwen3-VL foundation model ✅ Processes text, images, screenshots, videos, and mixed modality https://t.co/EXE2AeQG3u

.@OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. This model excels at large code changes like refactors or migrations, and has improved performance in Windows environments. Try it out in @code. https://t.co/TnkOVixjUI

Introducing the Story Panels app. A simple way to turn a single character or product image into a three panel stack that tells a story. Try it today. https://t.co/MSjPuiLrIx

At CES, our CEO Jensen Huang unveiled how physical AI is coming to life in factories, robots and the next wave of autonomous vehicles with Rubin, GR00T, Alpamayo and more. Watch the keynote: https://t.co/yUHiDMBXSg Read the announcements: https://t.co/16BG6MDmD5 https://t.co/1qo9SIqTha

Built with Python. Powered by F1 data. 🐍 🏁 @tomshaw_dev created F1 Race Replay, an impressive open source app that lets you visualize and replay full Grand Prix events. 😱 Watch our latest project spotlight. ✨ https://t.co/g4Teqb0UmF

introducing trainers for Qwen-2512 and Z-Image. now you can train LoRAs for these two models and use them in Krea Image. try it now! https://t.co/59vqSXyr6R

At #NRF2026, we introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX) to power the agentic commerce era! Learn how we’re helping retailers deploy AI agents that reason, build and resolve issues autonomously to create seamless shopping experiences → https://t.co/Mqit5YZ06p https://t.co/kBSBjfqpjH