Software and IT services, ranked and explained

BYD's YANGWANG luxury brand showed the ALTIOR, a 5.6-metre, four-seat electric limousine on the four-motor e4 Platform with more than 621 miles of CLTC range, in Abu Dhabi in November 2026.

An agent harness that runs hundreds of parallel coding sessions on cloud VMs using the customer's own API keys and subscriptions, with Slack, an API and an app; the maker claims 30 to 80 percent lower cost per task.

AI compliance and leasing software for US affordable housing: tenant income certifications, recertifications, document tamper checks, HUD-50058 preparation and SOC 2 Type II security, from Y Combinator company Tire Swing.

Construction takeoffs and estimates from uploaded plan PDFs: it detects and counts elements such as HVAC networks, builds a 3D view to check, and exports a structured table for quotes or ERP.

Robots for AI data centres: they patch fibre across thousands of ports during commissioning and, on live sites, swap drives, reseat optics and restart servers, from Y Combinator company Nines Robotics.

A benchmark, open-source infrastructure and RL environments from Acyclic Labs for measuring and training how well AI models coordinate thousands of agents working on one task.