AI Launch Breakdowns: The Big Launches on X, Taken Apart

The two best launches, 6 to 13 Nov

The last 7 days in the directory: the biggest launch by views, and the biggest breakout, the largest multiple of its poster's following among launches past 1M views. Updated with every directory refresh.

Biggest by views

xAI Grok Bot 1.0 launch on X: 47M views, breakdown and stats, @bot

55.4M views, 103 times the following. See the launch.

Biggest breakout

Volaren, @martin_pestana_

3.7M views, 3,153 times the following. See the launch.

Every breakdown

When a large AI company launches on X, the post lands in the directory within a day and one of these follows. Each breakdown says what shipped, what the announcement post did against the company's own previous launches, how the post was built, and what a company with a smaller account can take from it.

Mubit's Launch on X From a 1,000-Follower Account: Breakdown

Anil Peri launched Mubit on X from about 1,000 followers with a founder story and a 3-minute film. The readings show two launches in one post. What worked and what we would change.

2026-10-29

Grok Bot's October Changelog on X: Launch Breakdown

Matt Palmer's What's New in Grok Bot video did 37.8M views on X, more than ten times the same format a month earlier. The readings, the per-view numbers and what we would change.

2026-10-29

Skyfall AI SKY-001 Launch: 3.5M Views From 340 Followers

Doomers AI launched SKY-001, Skyfall AI's engineering world model, from CEO Sam Pasupalak's account of about 340 followers on 19 October 2026. It passed 3.5 million views in a day, nearly three times Microsoft's own model launch that month. How it was built, and what it did.

2026-10-20

Meta Muse Wonder Launch on X: Alexandr Wang's Post, Taken Apart

Meta launched the Muse Wonder frontier models from Alexandr Wang's account. What the post did in its first hours, why the person outran the company account again, and how it compares with Muse in September and this autumn's model launches.

2026-10-12

Pine Computer Launch: 20M+ Views From 1,200 Followers

Doomers AI launched Pine Computer, a computer built for AI agents, from founder Stanley Wei's account of about 1,200 followers on 9 October 2026. The post passed 20 million views in a day, the largest launch from a small account in the directory. How it was built, and what it did.

2026-10-09

Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) Launch: What the Post Did on X, Hour by Hour

Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk, on 6 October 2026: a 1T-parameter open-weight model with 49B active. The launch post hour by hour, who carried it, the copy and the preview, from the Doomers AI launch directory.

2026-10-06

OpenAI DevDay 2026: Every Announcement (Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast)

Every OpenAI DevDay 2026 announcement in order: dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast and the rest, with what each launch post did on X and the teaser that beat the reveal.

2026-09-30

OpenAI Dots Explained, and Why dot.com Goes to Grok

What OpenAI dots are, why typing dot.com lands on xAI's Grok Bot, what the launch post did on X, and the four-part naming check for any product launch.

2026-09-30

Claude Opus 5.5 Launch: 28M Views on X, Taken Apart

Claude Opus 5.5 launched on 22 September 2026: Fable 5.1 performance at 40% less than Opus 5. The launch post's views, rank and how it was built, from the Doomers AI launch directory.

2026-09-24

GPT-6 Astra: What the Launch Did on X

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra post stands at 137M+ views, the largest launch we measure, with a save rate below the median. What it means for launching in its shadow.

2026-09-04

OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor. Anthropic Did It First.

OpenAI ends Cursor's model access on 12 November after the SpaceX deal. Anthropic cut Windsurf the same way in 2025, and named Cursor as the reason.

2026-08-29

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