4 top startup and company launches for the week of May 1-7, 2026, ranked by verified X views on Launch Archive.
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Introducing GPT-Realtime-2 in the API: our most intelligent voice model yet, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents. Voice agents are now real-time collaborators that can listen, reason, and solve complex problems as conversations unfold. Now available in the API https://t.co/2DY1LU2vO8
What if your Claude could be Monica? Or Darius? Or whoever you want them to be? Today, we’re introducing the Pika MCP. Which means you can give your Claude a face, name, and personality—plus the ability to create rich, multimodal content. Byeeee generic AI. Pikafy your Claude https://t.co/5xfvqR47pU
Today we're launching Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance. Finance teams can bring licensed data from providers like Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc into Computer. We’ve also added 35 dedicated finance workflows for the work analysts repeat every week. https://t.co/AfWvC2FOpA
Introducing /orchestrate, a skill that recursively spawns agents to tackle your most ambitious tasks with the Cursor SDK. We’ve used it to: - Autoresearch our internal skills, cutting token use by 20% while improving evals - Cut cold start times on our internal backend by 80% https://t.co/8Hm8S9J5pg