An artificial intelligence cloud and model life-cycle management platform. Financial operations tools that aim to follow AI waste from cloud to coding agent. And a company taking data centers to space. Fireworks AI, PointFive and Starcloud are among the hottest cloud computing startups to impress CRN so far in 2026 as solution providers and their clients continue to assess which workloads belong in the cloud and the best way to bring operations into the AI era.