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

Grok Build is now available in Beta for all SuperGrok and X Premium+ users. Use Plan Mode, create images and videos with Imagine, and build automations or orchestrators with the CLI. Visit https://t.co/bpTHpjivWD to get started. https://t.co/OZ0kjtkpUf

We’re giving away $10,000,000 to founders building agent-first businesses. Autonomous, proactive agents will run tomorrow's companies. We're backing 500 founders building them. The Founding 500. https://t.co/u8mxRWEXiT https://t.co/chZDnNOnlM

Polsia just raised $30M at a $250M valuation. Approaching $10M annual run rate. One Founder + AI. Zero employees. Polsia runs companies autonomously. It also ran its own fundraising. I just showed up for signatures. https://t.co/6ryypKG0GY

AI is making kids dumber. It should be making them geniuses. Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇 https://t.co/tmCdVoEZYF

Introducing Co-Invest. (@coinvestai) The first way to trade directly through ChatGPT and Claude. https://t.co/rWnn4JWUyn

Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in essential software.

It’s never been easier to design your dream house. Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints. @DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds. Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/15UwGKE5G3

We raised $5.4M to make paid ads run themselves. Introducing Playad, the world's first AI marketing team. First up: paid ads, run by AI. https://t.co/3NOGUBTrcM

Attention, all you geniuses with products, but no marketing skills. Today we’re launching the Founder Starter Kit—4 skills that will help you look and sound like a legit company, including: > Build-a-Brand > App Screens > Product Sizzle > Founder Video Available for Claude via https://t.co/p9uqgaIiFl

grok-build-0.1 is now available via the xAI API in public beta. This is the same model that powers the Grok Build CLI and excels at agentic coding. Priced at $1/m input and $2/m output, it’s extremely cost effective, intelligent, and fast. https://t.co/2ZtqWM2QLU

Now Live: Dhan App on iPad! And over the past few years, one request kept finding its way back to us consistently - "When will Dhan be available on iPad?" Today, we are launching the Dhan Experience for your iPad. 🧵 https://t.co/cJ1SMK1Lqd

Introducing Runway MCP. Now you can connect Runway directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit and more. Generate polished images and videos with state-of-the-art models, like Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0, GPT Images 2.0, Kling and more. Right from where you're already working. https://t.co/J3wBb4kZDy

Today we're announcing Figure has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots at scale Catalyst operates iconic brands including JCPenney, Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers. Figure will start initial deployment in Reno, NV https://t.co/awJRfyweBa

With the Cursor SDK, you can build your own agents with Composer 2.5. It's now available in Python and TypeScript. This long weekend, Composer usage is 90% off in the SDK. We're excited to see what you build! https://t.co/8grHpJQtOu

Over 1 billion PDFs are created every day, but your agents still can’t read them reliably. Today we’re releasing Parse 2.0, the most accurate document parsing API in the world. Extend already processes millions of pages daily for leading AI teams like Brex, Mercury, Opendoor, https://t.co/9a4wT6ojW8

Introducing Dubbing v2, our revolutionary new dubbing model. For the first time, the emotion and performance of the original content is carried over into every language. https://t.co/EZz6DmlbRW

Code review, but faster. Introducing Diffs. A new way to review PRs, directly inside Linear. • Realtime updates • Guided reviews with Al (beta) • Focused notifications • Iterate with coding agents • Threaded comments https://t.co/wdyMmKUjzs

We’re taking steps to accelerate defensive progress in biology: - Launching Rosalind Biodefense to help trusted builders develop new biodefense and pandemic preparedness capabilities.
 - Expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for select U.S. government and allied partners

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available for Max subscribers on Perplexity and Computer. https://t.co/DNDNo0Iqxj

Today, we are launching shift. Starting in NYC, we are bridging the economy of today into the AI economy where all services, goods, and leisure will be affordable, and humanity will progress towards abundance. Please enjoy your free home cleaning and join shift for a lot more! https://t.co/kvBUEEVB4T

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Cursor. On CursorBench, it's able to work much more efficiently than Opus 4.7. We've also found it to be more persistent on harder tasks.

Auto-review mode is now available in Cursor. It allows agents to run tool calls with fewer approval prompts and safer execution. https://t.co/GZQX89mgmq

5 of 10 teams at demo day broke $10M annualized HF0 is not just for early stage companies Interviews started yesterday. https://t.co/TI9AHBAJuM

We're taking on the hardest problems in the real world 🏗️🚚 🛫⚛️ Today at The AI Now Summit, held at the Louvre, we announced AI solutions for aerospace, automotive, energy, and physics. Deployed in production at @Airbus , @BMW, @EDFofficiel , and more. More below: https://t.co/L6Vq7RdABg

Today, Pace has raised a $46 million Series B, co-led by @ThriveCapital and @Sequoia, with participation from @emergencecap and @pruvencapital, to help our customers insure more of the world’s risk. @pacecom agents have completed more than 250,000 critical insurance operations, https://t.co/Ub4w1U4uoi

Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention. 1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M. Personal AGI is coming.  The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence. It will be attention. https://t.co/evXmS5AF1M

Today we are launching Music v2. Better vocals, instrumentation, and arrangement across every genre, improved multilingual support plus capabilities that weren't possible before. https://t.co/mJYCZ24lgO

Introducing Genspark AI Slides 5.0. Our biggest upgrade to AI Slides yet. The biggest leap? Slide Skills. Reusable assets that bundle expert thinking and polished design, ready in one click. Here's everything new in 5.0: - 100+ Expert Skills built in. We've packed the thinking https://t.co/xzP5WRykm6

🆕 @AnthropicAI's Claude Opus 4.8 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Early testing shows: • It demonstrates a clear step forward in code understanding and generation across a range of real-world coding tasks. • It handles complex problem-solving and https://t.co/dMkLFeEtNp

We just raised $7.5M to build the infrastructure for identity and fraud. The round is backed by @ycombinator, Orange Collective, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and other incredible VCs and angels. AI is making fraud incredibly cheap to create: fake identities, fake businesses, fake https://t.co/WYWcOsdHmB