142 top startup and company launches for May 2026, ranked by verified X views on Launch Archive.
142 launches
People are generating over 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. Researcher @kenjihata joins Product lead @adele__li and host @AndrewMayne to explore the new use cases and trends emerging since the launch of Images 2.0. https://t.co/INhLS7TDri
You can now create and manage automations in the same workspace as your agents. Automations are now available in the Agents Window. For the next 7 days, all agent runs for newly created automations are 50% off. https://t.co/bUz588Rjhy
Introducing the Cursor Developer Habits Report. We’re sharing some of our findings on how software development is changing. It’s based on the most comprehensive dataset on AI coding in the world, across all model families. https://t.co/c4ZOeVErEO
Introducing Altara: the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world. Today @evatuecke and I are excited to announce our $7M seed led by @GreylockVC, joined by @Neo, @BoxGroup, @Liquid2V, and angel investors including @JeffDean and leadership from OpenAI & AMD. We’re https://t.co/FThgTfCibW
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
Introducing Gemma-4-31B-it-Pearl on Together AI, Pearl Research Labs’ instruction-tuned checkpoint of Gemma 4 31B powered by @prlnet Proof of Useful Work protocol. AI natives can now use this Pearl model as a serverless inference endpoint on Together AI, at a 25%+ discounted https://t.co/ljoQ8Nfa1U
We just raised $10.5M led by @a16z. Patents protect the world's most important innovations, but the analysis to actually use them has always been too slow and too expensive. @StiltaIP changes that, and is already used on the highest-stakes IP work at multiple AmLaw 100 firms https://t.co/Y0N14M8ZEY
Varun Vummadi (@varunvummadi) is the co-founder of @GigaAI, which builds AI agents for customer support for some of the biggest companies in the world, including DoorDash, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the US, and a top-three global telecom provider. At Startup School https://t.co/FhCjjlXz1p
1/ Today, we're launching universal deposit addresses. Each user gets one persistent address that accepts crypto deposits across supported chains and automatically settles funds into the token your app expects. https://t.co/d4fRpNlDWf
Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce @withdefault's Series A led by @8vc and our new product. We spent the last three years building the tools and orchestration layer companies like @owner and @AirbyteHQ have used to build infrastructure across their go-to-market functions. https://t.co/4KsGztbfC1
today, we're releasing the API for Krea 2. now available in platforms like @fal or @ComfyUI, through agents like Hermes from @NousResearch, and with full support for Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw. learn how you can set it up 👇 https://t.co/R4jdyyTxQk
Introducing Speech Engine. Developers can now turn their existing chat agent into a full voice agent with one prompt. Speech Engine combines our leading speech, transcription, and voice orchestration models into a single pipeline - all custom built to work best together. https://t.co/WSWM7nppwd
Introducing The Giga Roadmap. The first public roadmap of the milestones leading to the Giga Upgrade. Implementing the Giga Upgrade to the live network is an extraordinarily complex engineering task. Follow every step from here to Giga: https://t.co/HrHWzi56e8 https://t.co/RiHbyWBsQF
Today, we are launching Hosted Evaluations on the platform. Running evals is an infra problem: harnesses, sandboxes, hours of compute, hundreds of parallel runs. Running evals is hard. Until now. https://t.co/8RydFWZ7cC
New capabilities coming to Figma Make (Rolling out now in our Beta desktop app) → Bring your codebase to Make → Edit code with precise changes → Branch, commit, ship https://t.co/bWScGVmSnh
Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Orchestrate across work with Computer directly in the side panel of your app to draft documents, model, build decks, and handle email. Available now: https://t.co/0itt5XcFRX https://t.co/oHf90rP4Xv
Tenet Industries (@industriestenet) is building low-cost, mass-producible defense systems, starting with strike drones. Defense primes are still building Bugattis and Ferraris. Tenet is building the F-150 for defense. https://t.co/XGoSOF7HOT
Introducing Project Luxo: a new initiative exploring how AI-generated video has crossed the uncanny valley. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared a series of short films with Hollywood executives, producers, directors, writers, actors and reporters. The response has been https://t.co/47TOMqzK4r
Excited to share that we’ve raised $300M in our Series B round, led by @radicalvcfund, bringing our total funding to more than $450M, with leading technology companies joining as both customers and investors. We continue accelerating the path to AGI through our two core pillars: https://t.co/EtW8VYl5Fy
introducing Imagine Animate - your moments, now in motion🎬 turn your fav images into short clips with a single tap☝️✨ 🧵(1/2) https://t.co/z4cAAXRMMM
Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve raised a $4.5 Million seed round led by @2048vc and @RangeVC with participation from @btv_vc. https://t.co/ajOhQwIaBf
Perplexity Computer is now available in Microsoft Teams. Run research, analysis, and document creation directly in your Teams workspace with the same capabilities as Computer. https://t.co/DDsVpopDzt
We’re working hard to launch @SilqueAI this summer. 🔥 We’ve already raised $3M in pre-seed round and packed Silque with amazing features. Now you can create animated product photography for your beauty, longevity and physical products. I’ve already been using it for client https://t.co/q5dZEskNoX
Small update today. Many requested a "anti-prompting" feature for V8 models (which existed in previous versions) which we call the --no flag. This is now available today in V8.1! So if you're trying to get something out of your images (like people) try --no people. Have fun!
No more guessing what your agents are up to. Introducing Custom Agent Insights. Every run, fully visible. Rolling out now. https://t.co/H2wvwkkG2M
3️⃣ Goal mode is now available in the Codex app, IDE extension, and CLI. Goal mode makes Codex more hands-off, letting you set a goal that it can work towards for hours or even days. https://t.co/OZ18P1YxBf
We’re rolling out 3.5 Flash to everyone in the @GeminiApp and AI Mode in @Google Search. Developers can start building in @Antigravity and via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio. #GoogleIO https://t.co/8Tdtdubsxm
Today we're launching Simple Compute Market (SCM). The market is simple: agents find compute, negotiate, settle, and get access without a human driving every step. Open-source. Agent-driven. Public good. No token. No fees. https://t.co/HzifmLpWwT
Our CEO Jensen Huang took the stage earlier this week with @Dell CEO @MichaelDell to unveil a major update to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, the full-stack platform powering the next wave of autonomous AI agents in the enterprise. From deskside workstations to massive data https://t.co/2JzEb5XV7v
Introducing Meshy 3D Agent 🚀 The world's first AI agent for 3D creation, now in Beta. Just chat — the agent will: 🧠 Brainstorm with you, pitching directions first 🎨 Generate visuals in batches, refined through chat 🧊 Turn your favorite into 3D — print, download, anywhere 📚 https://t.co/ztuPhZPba6