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

Introducing GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction. Rolling out in ChatGPT starting today. You’ll want to turn the sound on for this one. https://t.co/WzoQFvA5ir

We raised $136M to kill Slack. Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack. Here’s how it works: https://t.co/PakqoBog3o

Today, we're introducing GPT 5.6 for marketing Just enter your brand and Lightreel watches millions of live TikToks and Reels to: → find creators → write viral scripts → see why your videos are flopping Stop spending hundreds of hours doomscrolling. https://t.co/BwkhcQiClf

Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack Led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack. Own your intelligence. https://t.co/BM31LfVUNQ

Today, we're launching our third-gen voice model and architecture, GPT-Live. GPT-Live is a full-duplex model with built-in async delegation, which allows it to deliver incredibly natural conversation along with the intelligence you expect from ChatGPT. https://t.co/6P71MwTfUa

Introducing <LoginWithChatGPT /> A simple SDK that lets your users log in with their ChatGPT account. - Users bring their own ChatGPT subscription - Tokens never touch the browser: HttpOnly cookie only - Works with the Vercel AI SDK: streamText() straight from the client - Open https://t.co/uwqS9tLIzj

We raised $130M @ $1B for our series A To build the open superintelligence stack for everyone Pre-training concentrated frontier AI in a handful of labs. RL changes who can build frontier AI and just works across almost any verifiable domain. We want to enable everyone to https://t.co/wnE2amOshd https://t.co/PnquzSqu9c

Entire is coming out of stealth: @ashtom, GitHub's last CEO, is building an AI-native GitHub. Thousands of users are on the product, from small AI-native startups to large enterprises frustrated with how slow their SDLC is. I'm an investor... my ONLY investment the last 2 years! https://t.co/7p82awq24q

Today, we're introducing Claude for Prospecting. Just describe your ideal customers, and Gojiberry finds and reaches out to hundreds of them from a single prompt. Welcome to the next era of sales. https://t.co/HY63zehO6b

Introducing Unlayer Elements The open-source React content layer for developers and AI agents to create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase. Write once. Render everywhere. Build emails, landing pages, invoices, reports, documents, templates, previews, and https://t.co/5v5K2WEwtq

Today we're launching Apple Notes-style ads in Claude We created a skill that can generate such ads in one-shot Just hand it over to Claude code, Codex or any AI agent and it can orchestrate it end-to-end Claude writes script, animates the text and closes on your brand. They https://t.co/VJ8H0RZXyg

Last year, we proved what was possible. Today, we're accelerating what comes next. Venus Aerospace has closed a $91M Series B led by @MercuryFund, with participation from @LockheedMartin Ventures, to transform our flight-proven RDRE into deployable propulsion systems for https://t.co/wpoCVxib8H

Prime Intellect has raised $130M in their Series A. Angel investors (I see a well known podcaster in there): John Schulman (Thinking Machines), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp), Aaron Levie (Box), Dwarkesh Patel, Milan Kovac (Tesla), Winston Weinberg (Harvey), Mike Knoop (Zapier, Ndea), https://t.co/oX4IEOqLxk https://t.co/b9DUkXavKc

Pi Network Just Made The App Studio More Useful For Creators Pi Network (@PiCoreTeam) launched a dual-tier update for Pi App Studio, introducing native backend support and AI-integrated planning tools for its global developer base. The deployment enables persistent user https://t.co/diEtxhwoZD

We raised $130M @ $1B for our series A. We have a >$100M run rate and we’re just getting started. Come join us. Prime Intellect is in a unique position in that we own the whole stack - compute, RL training and inference framework, environments, enterprise offerings. It's a

Today, we're launching Runway Dev, a new AI media platform for professional developers and enterprise teams. From search and advertising to ecommerce and gaming, developers are using Runway to cut costs, iterate faster and drive better consumer engagement. Runway Dev gives teams https://t.co/KD4VCzwjXn

Introducing the Global Researcher Map 🌎 We mapped every AI researcher into a visual landscape you can explore Search your favorite authors, topics, or institutions, and see who’s behind the work https://t.co/ezMb7N2Yc5

Introducing Unbound Loop: 3D sculpting meets real-time AI, turning simple shapes into stunning models instantly. Keep full creative control as the AI augments your work, then export directly for games and 3D printing. Try it today for free! 👇 loop . unbound . io https://t.co/bNVNc61QmD

Today we are introducing the brand new Injective website. Injective is now where users, institutions, and autonomous AI agents trade, tokenize, and transact at scale. Our vision to build the new internet economy starts now with many more launches on the way. https://t.co/j04eP0wPCM

Today we are re-introducing Warp, the AI-native employee management platform for payroll, compliance, benefits, HR, and IT that runs itself. We’ve raised $85M to rebuild the last great enterprise software category. We shipped more in the last 3 months than our first two years https://t.co/STM1WB63D7

Today we're launching Inkbox: the identity and communication layer for AI agents. We give agents their own email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address. Install @inkbox_ai identity with one command: allow anyone to reach your Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes from anywhere, and https://t.co/RlZGfXUflH

Complex edits? We’ll pass 🎬 Introducing Video Remix in Google Photos. Turn your everyday clips into stylized, share-worthy videos with just a few taps. Swap backgrounds, fix lighting, or add artistic effects like watercolor and oil painting. Powered by Gemini Omni and rolling https://t.co/Qh5jwoUoWQ

Congratulations to Eren Bali @erenbali Edouard, Murat and the entire Monogram team on coming out of stealth and announcing an impressive $40 million seed round. More than the investment itself, what excites me is the vision. As AI becomes capable of understanding intent and https://t.co/nnCkGX0NPr

Congrats to @joinfleek on their $25M Series B! The secondhand clothing market is a $200B+ industry and growing 3x faster than new apparel, but almost all of it still runs on manual assessment and offline trades. Fleek is building the AI-native marketplace to modernize it,

Today we're launching Glass for Patients, the personal AI agent for your health. Glass reviews all of your healthcare data and analyzes it alongside the world's medical knowledge to help you continually understand and optimize your health. Get started at https://t.co/CFj0vCqvl4 https://t.co/kMTqOANjHS