AdAnt AI, a conversational ad creative agent that turns a brief into social video ad concepts and variations, was among the top three AI products on Product Hunt in August 2026 by upvotes. The early-s…
Hey Noah, an AI executive assistant developed by Pilot Alpha Labs, launched publicly on Product Hunt on 4 August 2026, finishing first for the day and first for the week with more than 600 upvotes. Th…
Runable, a general AI agent for small businesses and creators, plans projects and builds deliverables such as websites, decks, and documents, with native apps on iPhone, iPad, macOS, and Android. The …
Murmell, a browser-based shared canvas for AI coding agents, launched publicly in August 2026, allowing teams to run Codex, Claude, and Kimi agents in one project directory with live terminals and fil…
Conductor, a Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor agents in parallel isolated workspaces, offers a free tier for local use, Pro at $50 per month, Teams at $60 per user per month, and custo…
Charlie Labs has launched daemons, standing agents that triage issues, update dependencies, and maintain documentation across GitHub and Linear without requiring prompts, with configuration stored as …
Alibaba launched Qoder in August 2025 as an agentic coding platform featuring Agent mode for checkpointed pair programming and Quest mode for autonomous multi-file feature delivery, available as an ID…
Google Stitch, a free AI interface design tool from Google Labs, turns prompts, sketches, or voice input into multi-screen UI designs on an infinite canvas and exports front-end code in multiple frame…
Meta launched Muse Code, a terminal-native coding agent, on 5 August 2026, built on the Muse Spark 1.2 model with a one-million-token context window and subagent orchestration for large repositories. …
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, and documents into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI in March 2026 and announcing the deal on August 7, …
Relay.app, a workflow automation platform that inserted human approval steps into AI-driven runs, shut down on July 16, 2026, after Google hired founder Jacob Bank as VP of Product for Chrome along wi…
Makiverse, a free AI anime and manga generator, turns text into anime episodes, manga, comics, webtoons, and comic shorts in any art style without requiring drawing or animation skills. The platform o…
SiliconFlow, an AI inference platform serving more than 200 open language and multimodal models through one OpenAI-compatible API, raised over 2 billion yuan (about $294 million) in a Series B in June…
Lila Sciences, an AI-for-science company launched by Flagship Pioneering, has raised roughly $550 million, including a $200 million seed round from Flagship Pioneering with General Catalyst, March Cap…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Juicebox, an AI recruiting platform founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, raised an $80M Series B at an $850M valuation in March 2026, led by DST Global with participation from Sequoia, Coatue,…
Luminance, a legal AI platform founded in 2015 out of Cambridge mathematics research, has raised roughly $165 million across seven rounds, including a $75 million round to expand its legal agents, and…
Commure, an AI healthcare operations platform, reported over 40 million ambient appointments annually and more than $25 billion in claims processed each year, and raised $70 million in May 2026 at a $…
OpenAI shut down ChatGPT Atlas, its Chromium-based AI browser with a ChatGPT sidebar and agent mode, on August 9, 2026, 292 days after launching on October 21, 2025. The browser never left macOS, with…
ToolDirectory.AI's analysis of 2,718 AI tools found that 258 (9.5%) have shut down or been acquired, with 125 shutting down outright and 133 acquired. 2025 was the deadliest year on record with 101 re…