17 top startup and company launches for the week of October 15-21, 2026, ranked by verified X views on Launch Archive.
17 launches
New voices. Better accents. And less "checking..." GPT-Live-1.1 brings these updates to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex, and dots, with new voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, and Japanese. Rolling out today to all users. Coming soon to the API. https://t.co/L6K8ZUC1xm
Introducing Hugo: the first human companion robot. At Boston Dynamics, I was Chief Strategy Officer, bringing robots into the real world. My co-founder, Farbod Farshidian, led research at the RAI Institute. Together, 15+ years teaching robots to run, jump, and work. So we https://t.co/C0pXgocJf5
HeyGen Video 1 is the #1 video model on the @OpenRouter leaderboard, and it's now available in HeyGen MCP. Tell your agent what you want to see, and it's ready in seconds. Read more: https://t.co/d9FIOUyLsb https://t.co/G8I8kD2dyT
At Self Labs, we’ve been using agents since day one Our agentic web identity & privacy stack is already used by companies like Google Today we're launching the missing piece: Agent Vault, a secure way for agents to log in & make credit card payments Superpowers for your agents https://t.co/MHa9qw95lh
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners. We're releasing: - Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation - BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter - The open source https://t.co/tHYv4cuYIh
Introducing Instant Soundtracks in ElevenCreative, a new way to add sound to your videos. Generate music and sound effects directly from an uploaded video. https://t.co/wVJShaSQce
We're open sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer. SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM. Available now under Apache 2.0: https://t.co/DzSmq6o1xA
Introducing Devin Oncall: Devin automatically investigates alerts and bugs, helping your team diagnose and resolve production incidents. Devin Oncall already handles thousands of alerts every day for some of the world’s largest companies. Let it become your SRE today. https://t.co/Nza88HwIKd
The only AI course you need to start creating in 2026. Introducing Higgsfield Academy. From your first prompt to directing your own AI movies. Zero experience needed. Available now on Higgsfield. https://t.co/GzxN07aCS1
Introducing Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, two personal AI devices designed to remember the moments that matter most. One wears on your wrist. One attaches to your phone. Both keep you present. ↓ https://t.co/leJ8GRLZgP
Introducing Superwhisper Meetings The first fully on device meeting recorder and note taker. https://t.co/fBlBXGhQc0
Introducing overshoot, it will cut your GPU bill in half with zero quality loss, or you don’t pay. Over the past few months, we have forward deployed into AI teams to optimize their inference stacks. They have now cumulatively saved over $5M. Overshoot is software that bakes https://t.co/o5VD4O8xRY
The number of founders on LinkedIn is up 70%. But building something of your own still starts with people. Today, we're introducing new ways to build meaningful connections, grow your audience and earn from your expertise. https://t.co/d0LKTDMH4w https://t.co/mQgrHHS2BO
Today we’re launching @runpraxis (YC F26), AI agents that run law firm operations, from first inquiry to paid invoice. Law firms spend 62% of their time on admin tasks they don’t bill. With Praxis, agents do the admin end to end, and the lawyer supervises and approves every https://t.co/FIn5CDeJAf
Big Orbofi upgrades. Now live: 👇 1) A big upgrade on the autonomy engine of the agents: enabling a more efficiently structured, and organized runtime -> this is openning the door for literally any kind of autonomous agent 2) Introducing the standardization and distribution https://t.co/qdi4UORwbg
We're releasing our latest social data for FREE. Agents need real-time context beyond a stale web search to react as markets move. Introducing Elfa v3: greater granularity, resolved relationships, and provenance on every signal. New endpoints are free to call until Oct 31. https://t.co/3V7bJ4I6aA