Airbyte vs VAST Data

What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap? TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Session

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a Builders Stage session titled 'What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap?' on October 13–15 at Moscone West, San Francisco. The session features Michel Tricot (Airbyte CEO), Linda Tong (Webflow CEO), and Rob Toews (Radical Ventures partner). It addresses the strategic challenge AI startups face when foundation model companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google introduce capabilities that can turn startups' differentiators into features. The discussion will explore how founders can build defensible companies through proprietary data, workflows, customer relationships, and trust. The session highlights the shift from competing with startups to competing with platform providers, impacting product strategy, fundraising, and valuations.

• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
• Session features Michel Tricot, CEO of Airbyte; Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow; and Rob Toews, partner at Radical Ventures.
• Airbyte has over 7,000 customers, including 18% of the Fortune 500.

Airbyte Adds Workspaces and HubSpot Write Capability

Airbyte announced major updates to its Airbyte Agents platform, introducing workspace functionality for per-team governance and expanded HubSpot write capabilities that let AI agents create and update contacts, companies, deals, and tickets. Workspaces provide isolated instances with workspace-specific indexed context stores, configurable access to data connectors, and administrative visibility across the organization. The Airbyte Agents Team plan (for multi-user orgs) is priced at $299/month and includes 10,000 Agent Operations (AOs) with additional AOs billed at $0.005 each. Airbyte positions these features as part of its strategy to be a data platform for enterprise agentic AI, emphasizing governance, SSO support, and least-privilege permission scopes.

• Airbyte announced major updates to its Airbyte Agents platform, including a new workspaces feature for governance and user organization.
• Airbyte added write operations for HubSpot Agent Connectors, enabling agents to create and update contacts, companies, deals, and tickets.
• Airbyte Agents Team plan is priced at $299 per month and includes 10,000 Agent Operations (AOs) per month; additional AOs cost $0.005 each.

VAST Data Press Releases

New press releases include: Arkane Cloud selects VAST Data to help French enterprises move AI from experimentation to production (Sep 29, 2026); VAST Data introduces DataEnclave to bring leading AI models and enterprise data together on trusted infrastructure (Sep 22, 2026); VAST Data and CrowdStrike deliver first-of-its-kind cybersecurity across the AI operating system (Sep 1, 2026).

VAST Data Introduces DataEnclave to Bring Leading AI Models and Enterprise Data Together on Trusted Infrastructure

VAST Data introduces DataEnclave, a new product to bring AI models and enterprise data together on trusted infrastructure. Also announced a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity partnership with CrowdStrike across the AI operating system.

Beamr and VAST Data Partner for AI Video Enhancement

Beamr Imaging Ltd., a video optimization technology company, has joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a Technology Partner. The collaboration with VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, aims to deliver new AI-powered video workflows for broadcasters and content owners. The partnership will debut at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam with a demonstration combining the VAST AI Operating System, NVIDIA Video Super Resolution, and Beamr's content-adaptive bitrate technology. This workflow enables broadcasters to upscale, AI-enhance, and modernize their media archives while controlling storage and delivery costs. The pipeline runs on NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs and can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises. Beamr plans to collaborate with VAST Data on joint go-to-market initiatives.

• Beamr Imaging Ltd. joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a Technology Partner.
• The partnership will debut at IBC 2026, September 11-14, in Amsterdam.
• The demonstration combines VAST AI Operating System, NVIDIA Video Super Resolution, and Beamr's content-adaptive bitrate technology.