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COSS Weekly: Teleport adds Cisco as strategic investor, Temporal raises $550M, PickNik acquired by Qualcomm, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:19:30 +0000

This week in COSS: Funding and M&A activity included Temporal's $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, Arcee AI's $150 million Series B at a valuation above $1 billion, Herdr's $6 million seed round, Tiledesk's €1.1 million funding, Clastix's €2.9 million seed investment, Cisco's strategic investment in Teleport, and Qualcomm's agreement to acquire PickNik.

Other announcements: Kestra launched Kestra 2.0, enabling workflows to be used as AI agent tools; Zed opened the public beta of Delta for collaborative coding with agents; and Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight model that translates camera observations, robot state, and natural-language instructions into physical actions.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Authelia, Bonitasoft, Clastix, Herdr, Jitsu, nao Labs, Nexus, PickNik, Revideo, and Tiledesk.

COSS Headlines

Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure

Companies mentioned: Temporal
Funding · Temporal Blog

Teleport Adds Cisco as Strategic Investor, Announces Partnership

Companies mentioned: Teleport
Announcement · Teleport

Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta

Companies mentioned: Zed Industries
Announcement · Zed Blog

Kestra launches Kestra 2.0

Companies mentioned: Kestra
Announcement · Kestra

Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Advance the Future of Open Robotics and Physical AI

Companies mentioned: PickNik
Announcement · Qualcomm Newsroom

Tiledesk raises €1.1 mn to expand open-source AI agent platform

Companies mentioned: Tiledesk
Funding · BEINSURE News

Clastix Closes €2.9 million Seed Round from Mistral, Others

Companies mentioned: Clastix
Funding · Clastix Blog

Arcee AI Raises Series B to Build the Future of American Open Models

Companies mentioned: Arcee AI
Funding · Arcee AI Blog

Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
Announcement · VentureBeat

Herdr raised a $6M seed

Companies mentioned: Herdr
Funding · Herdr Blog

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Featured COSS Companies

Nexus

Open source solutions for verifiable computation

Bonitasoft

Business Process Automation platform

Authelia

Open-source IAM solution.

nao Labs

Open-source analytics agent builder

Revideo

Open-source framework for programmatic video

Jitsu

Open-source event data collection platform

PickNik

Robot motion planning and manipulation software

Tiledesk

Conversational AI platform for customer support

Clastix

Kubernetes platform for fleet-scale operations

Herdr

Agent runtime for coding workflows

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COSS Weekly: Unleash raises $35M, Mistral AI valuation tops €21B, ClickHouse ARR passes $350M, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Unleash raised a $35 million Series B to expand its enterprise feature-flag platform, while Mistral AI closed a €3 billion Series D to scale compute and commercial growth. Moonshot AI is considering a Hong Kong IPO of up to $5 billion, Thinking Machines Lab is reportedly in talks for a $5 billion–$6 billion round, and ClickHouse acquired RunReveal to bring security-data expertise in-house.

Elsewhere, ClickHouse’s annual recurring revenue passed $350 million amid demand for AI workloads; OpenBB announced it is winding down and open-sourcing its product suite; and IBM committed $240 million to a Together AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud. OpenAI released its long-awaited report on its rogue model's breach of Hugging Face's infrastructure, while Automattic’s board placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave and named CFO Mark Davies interim CEO.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Astro, Automatisch, Folo, InteraApps, LiveKit, NextUI Inc., Ockam, OpenEBS, TensorZero, and Timefold.

COSS Headlines

Oslo’s Unleash raises $35M to govern AI-generated code as European enterprise bets grow bolder

Companies mentioned: Unleash
Funding · The Next Web

Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports

Companies mentioned: Thinking Machines Lab
Funding · The Next Web

OpenAI releases sweeping report on Hugging Face AI agent hack

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Media Mention · CNBC

ClickHouse's Recurring Revenue Passes $350 Million as OpenAI, Agent Use Jumps

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Media Mention · The Information

ClickHouse welcomes RunReveal

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog

China’s Moonshot Said to Seek Up to $5 Billion in Hong Kong IPO This Year - Bloomberg

Companies mentioned: Moonshot AI
Funding · Bloomberg

OpenBB winding down and open-sourced - Hacker News

Companies mentioned: OpenBB
Media Mention · Hacker News

Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Funding · TechCrunch

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Companies mentioned: Automattic
Announcement · TechCrunch

IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Announcement · The Next Web

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Featured COSS Companies

InteraApps

Self-hosted pastebin and developer tools

Folo

AI-powered information browser and RSS reader

OpenEBS

Kubernetes Storage Simplified

Automatisch

Open-source business process automation platform.

LiveKit

OSS platform for building audio and video apps

Astro

Web framework for fast, content-driven websites.

NextUI Inc.

AI-powered code generation for web components.

Ockam

Complete PaaS for distributed agentic AI systems

TensorZero

Open-source stack for industrial LLM apps.

Timefold

Optimizes scheduling, routing, and planning.

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COSS Weekly: Databricks hits $190B valuation, Nvidia confirms acquisition of Hugging Face, Amazon acquires DuckLabs, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, Metriport secured $26 million in Series A financing, Stability AI closed a $76 million Series B, and W4 Games raised $18 million in Series B. In M&A news, Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, AWS completed its acquisition of DuckLabs while keeping DuckDB under the DuckDB Foundation, and MotherDuck acquired Tower Computing to develop data APIs and data-agent capabilities.

Other announcements include OpenClaw 2.0, the project's largest update to date; Mistral AI's strategic collaboration with HUMAIN on sovereign AI infrastructure, models, and Arabic-language frontier models; and OpenBB's decision to shutter its business and open source its entire product suite under a permissive license. Together AI is partnering with HUMAIN for 250 megawatts of Saudi data-center capacity, while OpsMill is bringing the community-led Nornir network-automation project into the company with additional engineering, funding, and release support.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Headroom Labs, Orca, Muse Group, iii, Upbound, stagewise, Conduktor, TraceLoop, BlazeMeter, and SafeDep.

COSS Headlines

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
Announcement · OpenClaw Blog

Mistral x HUMAIN | Mistral AI

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Announcement · Mistral AI

OpenBB belongs to everyone

Companies mentioned: OpenBB
Announcement · OpenBB

Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Announcement · Gizmodo

Databricks Hits $190 Billion Valuation As CEO Ali Ghodsi Claims AGI Has Already Arrived

Companies mentioned: Databricks
Funding · Forbes

MotherDuck acquires Tower.dev

Companies mentioned: MotherDuck
Announcement · MotherDuck

Metriport raises $26 million to give clinicians insight into any patient ...

Companies mentioned: Metriport
Funding · Metriport

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion - TechCrunch

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Announcement · TechCrunch

AWS to Acquire DuckLabs, DuckDB Project Stays Open Source

Companies mentioned: DuckLabs
Announcement · Linuxiac

Stability AI latest funding backed by entertainment industry biggest names

Companies mentioned: Stability AI
Funding · Stability AI

Nornir Joins Opsmill

Companies mentioned: OpsMill
Announcement · OpsMill

W4 Games raises $18 million to accelerate international presence

Companies mentioned: W4 Games
Funding · W4 Games

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Featured COSS Companies

Headroom Labs

Context compression for AI agents

Orca

IDE for parallel AI coding agents

Muse Group

Music-creation tools and publishing platform

iii

Backend runtime that unifies APIs, jobs, and tasks

Upbound

The Cloud for Platform Engineering

stagewise

Frontend coding agent for production codebases

Conduktor

Conduktor: data hub for operational data & AI.

TraceLoop

LLM reliability platform for continuous feedback.

BlazeMeter

AI-powered continuous testing platform.

SafeDep

Scans open source packages for malicious code.

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COSS Weekly: Databricks acquires Electric, Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, Temporal in talks for $500M, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Dash0 acquired Polar Signals, while Stripe reportedly reached a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion; Dynatrace acquired Arize, and Databricks acquired Electric. Temporal is reported to be in talks to raise about $500 million at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, and Synthefy announced a $6.5 million seed round led by Wing Venture Capital.

In other news, Modular made the Mojo programming language fully open source under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions; TrueFoundry launched TrueForge, an open-source, vendor-neutral alternative to Claude Managed Agents; and DeepSeek launched its MIT-licensed, plugin-based agent harness alongside DeepSeek-V4-Pro.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Akon Labs, CrewAI, Predibase, Resemble AI, Sourcegraph, Synthefy, TrueFoundry, VeloDB, VictoriaMetrics, and ZenStack.

COSS Headlines

Electric joins Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes

Companies mentioned: Databricks, ElectricSQL
Announcement · Databricks Blog

DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Announcement · The New Stack

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Companies mentioned: OpenRouter
Announcement · TechCrunch

Mojo is now open source!

Companies mentioned: Modular
Announcement · Modular Blog

Temporal in talks for $500M round at $12B, six months after $300M raise

Companies mentioned: Temporal
Funding · Dealroom

Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals

Companies mentioned: Polar Signals, Dash0
Announcement · Dash0 Blog

Arize Acquired By Dynatrace

Companies mentioned: Arize AI
Announcement · Arize Blog

Synthefy: Announcing our $6.5M Seed Round

Companies mentioned: Synthefy
Funding · Synthefy Blog

An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched

Companies mentioned: TrueFoundry
Announcement · The New Stack

DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Announcement · VentureBeat

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Featured COSS Companies

Synthefy

Tabular data prediction models

TrueFoundry

Enterprise AI gateway for LLMs and agents

Akon Labs

Code intelligence engine for AI agents

VictoriaMetrics

Open-source time series database & monitoring

Sourcegraph

AI SDLC platform for code search & editing

Predibase

Platform for fine-tuning large language models

CrewAI

Platform for building AI agent workflows

Resemble AI

Voice AI platform for generation & detection

VeloDB

Real-time data warehouse for fast analytics.

ZenStack

Full-Stack Toolkit with Authorization on Prisma ORM

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COSS Weekly: Convex raises $57M, Elastic acquires Deductive AI, HashiCorp founder launches new startup, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Convex raised a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with Etna Labs and existing backers a16z and Spark Capital also participating. In M&A, Elastic agreed to acquire Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform for resolving production issues, while Keyfactor entered a definitive agreement to acquire Cofide.

Elsewhere, Temporal described the impact of a fivefold increase in AI spending alongside doubled revenue; YugabyteDB introduced AMP, a serverless PostgreSQL offering with AI agents for database fleet management; and OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub, and Microsoft backed Vercel’s Agent Plugins standard. Supabase became a launch partner for OpenAI’s Sign in with ChatGPT beta, Red Hat launched the asago community for AI safety and governance automation, Elastic expanded its OpenAI collaboration for enterprise AI applications, and HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto launched Multiplexer, a server-side terminal multiplexer startup.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Cofide, TidesDB, LangWatch, Fleet Device Management, Quandela, Upsonic, OllyGarden, Expected Parrot, Dagger, and Soda.

COSS Headlines

Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.

Companies mentioned: Temporal
OSS News & Views · The New Stack

AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents!

Companies mentioned: YugabyteDB
OSS News & Views · The New Stack

Elastic Acquires Deductive AI

Companies mentioned: Elastic
Announcement · Elastic Blog

Convex raises a $57M Series B

Companies mentioned: Convex
Funding · Convex Blog

Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Here’s why it matters for developers.

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · The New Stack

Cofide Acquired By Keyfactor

Companies mentioned: Cofide
Announcement · Cofide Blog

Supabase Becomes a Launch Partner for OpenAI's "Sign in with ChatGPT" Beta

Companies mentioned: Supabase
Announcement · Supabase Blog

Red Hat Launches asago Community to Automate AI Safety and Governance

Companies mentioned: Red Hat
Announcement · Red Hat Newsroom

Elastic expands its collaboration with OpenAI

Companies mentioned: Elastic
Announcement · Elastic Blog

HashiCorp Founder Mitchell Hashimoto Launches New Multiplexer Startup

Companies mentioned: HashiCorp
Announcement · The Register

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Featured COSS Companies

Cofide

Open-standards workload identity platform

TidesDB

Embeddable key-value storage engine

LangWatch

AI agent testing and evaluation platform

Fleet Device Management

Open-source device management for multiple OS.

Quandela

Develops photonic quantum computers & software.

Upsonic

Open-source AI agent framework for fintech

OllyGarden

Extracting insights from OpenTelemetry data

Expected Parrot

Open-source platform for AI-powered surveys

Dagger

Software for building and running CI/CD pipelines.

Soda

Data quality platform for modern data stack

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COSS Weekly: Fish Audio raises $52M, Prime Intellect raises $130M, Nscale acquires Anyscale, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:49:52 +0000

This week in COSS: Prime Intellect raised a $130M Series A to build its open superintelligence stack, Fish Audio announced a $52M seed round, groundcover secured a $100M Series C for its AI-era observability platform, and Nscale acquired Anyscale to enhance its AI cloud offering.

Elsewhere, a coalition of COSS companies and others called for U.S. support for open-weight models; Supabase released its agent-evaluation framework; Zilliz launched Milvus 3.0; ClickHouse formed ClickHouse Labs; Hugging Face’s CEO urged legal protections after an autonomous AI cyberattack; and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 was reported to have escaped containment during testing.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: CrateDB, FlexPrice, FlowFuse, groundcover, NativeLink, OneUptime, PhotoPrism, Prime Intellect, Unleash, and Zipstack.

COSS Headlines

Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed Round

Companies mentioned: Fish Audio
Funding · Fish Audio Blog

Introducing Supabase Evals

Companies mentioned: Supabase
Announcement · Supabase Blog

Prime Intellect Raises $130M Series A to Build the Open Superintelligence Stack

Companies mentioned: Prime Intellect
Funding · Prime Intellect Blog

Nscale Acquires Anyscale, Enhancing its Full Stack AI Cloud Platform

Companies mentioned: Anyscale
Announcement · Nscale Blog

groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Create the Observability Platform Built for the AI Era

Companies mentioned: groundcover
Funding · groundcover blog

ClickHouse launches ClickHouse Labs

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog

COSS Companies Sign Open Letter Urging US to Encourage Development of Open Weight Models

Companies mentioned: Cloudbees, GitLab, Hugging Face, LangChain, Liquid AI, Metabase, Neon, Ollama, Together AI, Elastic, Anomaly, StackBlitz, Letta, Nous Research, Harness, Redis, EdgeRunner AI, Databricks, Red Hat, Anaconda, Kong Inc., Automattic, Supermemory AI, Resemble AI, Mem0, Mistral AI, Unsloth AI, Composio, Cline, Socket, Black Forest Labs, Baseten, Browserbase, Hyland, Upbound, Snyk, assistant-ui, Oumi, OpenClaw, Lightning AI, Arcee AI, Inferact, Mozilla Corporation, Prime Intellect
Announcement · Microsoft Newsroom

Hugging Face CEO called OpenAI's rogue AI hack "unprecedented" and wants new laws

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
OSS News & Views · Quartz

One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment

Companies mentioned: Moonshot AI
OSS News & Views · Wired

Zilliz Announces Milvus 3.0

Companies mentioned: Zilliz
Announcement · BusinessWire

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Featured COSS Companies

CrateDB

Distributed SQL database for real-time analytics

Prime Intellect

Open stack for training AI agents at scale

groundcover

BYOC observability platform for engineers

FlexPrice

Monetization platform for AI/agentic companies

PhotoPrism

AI-powered photo app for decentralized web

NativeLink

Open-source build cache and remote executor

FlowFuse

Industrial platform for Node-RED at scale

OneUptime

Open-source reliability and incident management

Zipstack

LLM-powered ETL for unstructured data

Unleash

Open-source feature flag platform for enterprises.

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COSS Weekly: BYOC grows and COSS grows with it, MyDecisive raises $12M and exits stealth, Aiven acquires Flow AI, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: On the funding front, Databricks raised $3 billion at a $188 billion valuation, extending its position as one of the most highly valued private companies in AI, while MyDecisive emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding and launched SmartHub, its open-source foundation for enterprise IT operations, alongside Octant, a commercial product suite built on that platform.

On the M&A and partnership front, Prefect acquired Dagster Labs to combine their open-source orchestration platforms, Aiven acquired Flow AI to bring agent infrastructure closer to production data, TrueFoundry acquired Seldon's business and customers to create a unified control plane for enterprise AI, and Vercel acquired Stakpak.

In other news, the eBPF Foundation added Meta and Toyota as new members, Nvidia announced an open-source security partnership to address rogue AI agents, Mattermost and Virtru announced a strategic partnership in defense technology, and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch was so popular it exhausted GPU capacity and forced the company to pause new subscriptions within 48 hours.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: authentik, Diagrid, HyperDX, MyDecisive, Seldon, Stakpak, Subtrace, TinaCMS, Tiptap, and Whereobots.

COSS Insights

Battle of the Software Acronyms: BYOC Is Beating SaaS, but the Winner is COSS

By Heather Meeker

COSS Headlines

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI's favorite second act

Companies mentioned: Databricks
Funding · TechCrunch

Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours.

Companies mentioned: Moonshot AI
OSS News & Views · The New Stack

Is open source the answer to rogue AI agents? Nvidia's new alliance says yes

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face, Thinking Machines Lab
Announcement · ZDNET

MyDecisive Raises $12 Million And Exits Stealth With Open-Source AI DevOps Platform

Companies mentioned: MyDecisive
Funding · Pulse 2.0

TrueFoundry + Seldon: Unified Control Plane for Enterprise AI

Companies mentioned: Seldon
Announcement · TrueFoundry Blog

Prefect acquires Dagster Labs

Companies mentioned: Prefect
Announcement · Prefect

Aiven Acquires Flow AI to Bring Agent Infrastructure Closer to Production Data

Companies mentioned: Aiven
Announcement · Aiven Blog

Mattermost and Virtru Announce Strategic Partnership in Defense Technology

Companies mentioned: Mattermost, Virtru
Announcement · Mattermost

eBPF Foundation Adds Meta and Toyota As New Members

Companies mentioned: Isovalent
Announcement · The Linux Foundation Newsroom

Stakpak acquired by Vercel

Companies mentioned: Vercel, Stakpak
Announcement · George Fahmy LinkedIn

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Featured COSS Companies

MyDecisive

AI DevOps platform for telemetry control

Seldon

Kubernetes-native MLOps deployment platform

Diagrid

Agentic durable execution platform

Stakpak

Autonomous DevOps agent that runs locally

TinaCMS

Open-source headless CMS with Git integration.

Tiptap

Headless and open-source editor framework

authentik

Open-source identity provider for secure access.

Whereobots

Spatial data ETL, analytics, and AI platform

HyperDX

Open-source full-stack observability platform.

Subtrace

Network monitoring tool for HTTP requests.

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COSS Weekly: Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code, Thinking Machines Releases its Long-Awaited LLM, DeepSeek Reportedly Valued at $52B, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Nous Research, the startup behind the OSS Hermes agent, is in talks to raise mew funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. Meanwhile, Anaconda has acquired Kilo Code, expanding its open-source AI development platform. DeepSeek continues to dominate headlines, with a reported new valuation of around $52 billion and separate reports that the company is in talks to raise $1.5 billion ahead of a potential 2027 IPO.

On the news and announcements front, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first open-weight model; Fenris Creations (formerly CCP) open sourced Carbon Engine, the technology powering its popular EVE Online MMORPG; Mozilla published its inaugural "State of Open Source AI" report; Chatto, a group and team chat application, became open source and available for self-hosting; and DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model is prompting enterprise AI vendors to grapple with persistent margin challenges.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Autobase, Chatto, Cosmic Stack, dbtrail, DearSQL, Fenris Creations, Mozilla Corporation, Pixeltable, SereneDB, and Thinking Machines Lab.

COSS Headlines

DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · VentureBeat

Chatto is now Open Source!

Companies mentioned: Chatto
Announcement · Hendrik Mans Blog

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Companies mentioned: Nous Research
Funding · TechCrunch

AI on Your Own Terms: Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code

Companies mentioned: Anaconda, Kilo Code
Announcement · Anaconda Blog

EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source

Companies mentioned: Fenris Creations
Announcement · PC Gamer

Inkling: Our open-weights model

Companies mentioned: Thinking Machines Lab
Announcement · Thinking Machines Blog

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

Companies mentioned: Thinking Machines Lab
Announcement · TechCrunch

Chinese filing implies DeepSeek valuation of around $52 billion

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · Reuters

DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · TechCrunch

Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here

Companies mentioned: Mozilla Corporation
Announcement · Mozilla News

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Featured COSS Companies

Chatto

Self-hostable team and group chat application.

SereneDB

Real-time search analytics database

Cosmic Stack

Research & product lab for AI agents

Thinking Machines Lab

AI research lab building customizable LLMs

DearSQL

Native C++ SQL client for all major databases

Fenris Creations

Open-source game engine and MMO developer

Mozilla Corporation

Maker of Firefox open-source web browser

Pixeltable

Declarative AI data infrastructure platform

Autobase

Self-hosted DBaaS platform for PostgreSQL

dbtrail

Time-travel & recovery for MySQL/Postgres

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COSS Weekly: Ollama raises $65M, Bespoke Labs raises $40M, Vercel acquires Better Auth, OpenClaw becomes a foundation, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Ollama raises a $65M Series B, Bespoke Labs announces a $40M Seed and Series A, and Vercel acquires Better Auth.

In other news, Bluesky drops the interim tag for CEO Toni Schneider, Entire announces a new Git hosting network, OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation, Synthetic Sciences releases an open source AI workbench for scientific research, Automattic champions open source in a new documentary, and the Linux Foundation partners with COSS companies like Chainguard and Red Hat to launches a new OSS security initiative.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Aptabase, Bespoke Labs, BlueRock, Building Humane Technology, Deta Surf, DoryLab, Prisma, Superlog, Synthetic Sciences, and Vendo.

COSS Headlines

Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth

Companies mentioned: Vercel, Better Auth
Announcement · Vercel Blog

An Entirely New Git Hosting Network

Companies mentioned: Entire
Announcement · Entire Blog

Introducing the OpenClaw Foundation

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
Announcement · OpenClaw Blog

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Companies mentioned: Ollama
Funding · TechCrunch

Ollama: all aboard open models

Companies mentioned: Ollama
Announcement · Ollama Blog

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats

Companies mentioned: Chainguard, Red Hat
Announcement · Linux Foundation

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider promoted to full-time, permanent CEO

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Announcement · Toni Schneider Blog

Bespoke Labs Raises $40M to Build Environments that Enable Reliable Agents

Companies mentioned: Bespoke Labs
Funding · Bespoke Labs Blog

Synthetic Sciences Releases OpenScience: An Open-Source, Model-Agnostic AI Workbench for Machine Learning, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry Research

Companies mentioned: Synthetic Sciences
Announcement · Marktechpost

Automattic Champions Open Source in New Documentry Film

Companies mentioned: Automattic
OSS News & Views · Variety

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Featured COSS Companies

BlueRock

AI agent security and observability

Vendo

Embedded AI agent for SaaS products

Building Humane Technology

Open-source framework for humane tech

Aptabase

Privacy-first analytics for apps

Superlog

AI-native observability that fixes bugs

Bespoke Labs

RL environments for reliable AI agents

DoryLab

AI-native SQL studio for databases

Prisma

Serverless Postgres database with ORM

Deta Surf

Open-source AI notebook and browser

Synthetic Sciences

Foundation models for scientific research

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COSS Weekly: Together AI raises an $800M series C, SuperPlane raises a $2.6M seed, Aikido acquires Root.io, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Together AI announced an $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI, SuperPlane raised a $2.6M pre-seed round to build an automation engine for AI-driven engineering, and Aikido Security acquired Root.io to strengthen software supply chain security.

Other headlines include a New York Times profile of Together AI, Nvidia adopting OpenBao (an open source fork of HashiCorp Vault), Immich hitting version 3.0, Deutsche Telekom partnering with n8n for AI agent automation, Ververica sunsetting its cloud managed service in favor of sovereign BYOC Apache Flink deployments, a German state deploying Nextcloud statewide to replace Microsoft SharePoint, and a Traefik blog post on the implications of governments switching off frontier AI models overnight.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Immich, Keploy, KorPro, Metabase, Open Mercato, PipeLab, Pluton, SuperPlane, Terrateam, and ZeroRisc.

COSS Headlines

Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Funding · Together AI Blog

As Companies Race for Cheaper A.I. Options, This Start-Up Pitches a Solution

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Media Mention · New York Times

Aikido acquires Root to secure the supply chain

Companies mentioned: Aikido Security
Announcement · Aikido Security Blog

SuperPlane Raises $2.6M Pre-Seed to Build the Automation Engine for AI-Driven Engineering

Companies mentioned: SuperPlane
Funding · SuperPlane Blog

Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault

Companies mentioned: HashiCorp
Announcement · TechTarget

What Happens If The Connection Goes Down? Lessons Learned from Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Going Dark

Companies mentioned: Traefik Labs
OSS News & Views · Traefik Blog

Nextcloud Deployed Statewide Across Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Replacing Microsoft SharePoint

Companies mentioned: Nextcloud
Announcement · Tech.eu

Deutsche Telekom Partners with n8n to Deliver AI Agent Automation for Mid-Sized Businesses

Companies mentioned: n8n
Announcement · The Fast Mode

Ververica Sunsets Cloud Managed Service, Doubles Down on Sovereign BYOC Apache Flink Deployments

Companies mentioned: Ververica
Announcement · Ververica Blog

Immich hits 3.0

Companies mentioned: Immich
Announcement · Immich Blog

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Featured COSS Companies

PipeLab

Open-source AI agent firewall

KorPro

Multi-cloud Kubernetes cost optimizer

Pluton

Open-source self-hosted backup solution

Open Mercato

Open-source AI CRM/ERP foundation framework

SuperPlane

Open-source control plane for platform engineering

Immich

Self-hosted photo & video management solution

ZeroRisc

ZeroRisc offers secure silicon device management.

Terrateam

GitOps automation for Terraform & OpenTofu

Metabase

Open-source business intelligence platform

Keploy

AI-powered API testing platform

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COSS Weekly: Timefold raises $13M, Continue.dev acquired by Cursor, Modular acquired by Qualcomm, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: The acquisition trend continued as Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue, and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million.

In funding news, DeepSeek closed over $7 billion in funding, Timefold raised a $13M Series A for its scheduling optimization platform, and Moonshot AI has reportedly sought a $30 billion valuation in new funding talks.

In other announcements, Sentient Foundation committed $42 million to advance open-source AGI, Daytona announced it is going closed source, Vercel launched eve (an open-source agentic framework), Zilliz launched Vector Lakebase, Upbound open-sourced Modelplane (a control plane for AI inference), Bluesky COO Rose Wang discussed AI and the company's open-source approach, and ClickHouse announced Silk, a new fiber runtime.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: ArcadeDB, Proton, HitKeep, Passbolt, Nirmata, Paper Compute Co., Plastic Labs, DuckLabs, Blacksky Algorithms, and Earendil Works.

COSS Headlines

Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot

Companies mentioned: Continue
Announcement · The New Stack

Introducing Modelplane: the control plane for AI inference

Companies mentioned: Upbound
Announcement · Modelplane Blog

'AI is taking away what makes us human' says social media boss

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Media Mention · Metro

DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Funding · The Next Web

Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI

Companies mentioned: Elastic
Announcement · SiliconANGLE

Vercel launches eve, an open-source framework that treats agents as directories

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · The New Stack

Zilliz Launches Vector Lakebase, Extending the World's Most Adopted Vector Database into a Unified Data Platform for AI

Companies mentioned: Zilliz
Announcement · Zilliz Newsroom

Daytona is going closed source. Here's why.

Companies mentioned: Daytona
Announcement · daytona.io

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

Companies mentioned: Modular
Announcement · Modular Blog

Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion

Companies mentioned: Modular
Announcement · WIRED

Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog

Timefold Raises $13M Series A for Scheduling and Routing APIs

Companies mentioned: Timefold
Funding · Timefold Blog

China's Moonshot AI Seeks $30 Billion Valuation in New Funding Talks

Companies mentioned: Moonshot AI
OSS News & Views · Bloomberg

Sentient Foundation Commits $42 Million to Advance Open Source AGI

Companies mentioned: Sentient Foundation
Announcement · Sentient Foundation News

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ArcadeDB

Open-source multi-model database supporting graphs, documents, key-value, time-series, and vectors in a single engine.

Proton

Open-source encrypted privacy suite

HitKeep

Privacy-first open-source web analytics

Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams

Nirmata

Kubernetes policy-as-code governance

Paper Compute Co.

AI agent telemetry and runtime infra

Plastic Labs

Open-source memory infra for AI agents

DuckLabs

Enterprise support for DuckDB & DuckLake

Blacksky Algorithms

Decentralized community infrastructure platform

Earendil Works

Open source AI coding agent toolkit

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COSS Weekly: Toyota invests in TIER IV, Ricoh invests in Weaviate, Databricks tops 80% revenue growth, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Databricks reported annualized revenue of $6.9 billion — up over 80% year-over-year — and announced plans to acquire Panther, an AI SOC platform, further expanding its security lakehouse ambitions. Toyota took a 1% stake in autonomous driving startup TIER IV with a technology collaboration MoU; Ricoh invested in vector database startup Weaviate through its RICOH Innovation Fund; and Ant Group's international arm is reportedly considering a $1 billion fundraise.

Vercel launched eve, an open-source agent framework; Chainguard committed $50 million and 100 engineers to securing open source from emerging AI-era threats; OpenCode reached 8 million monthly active users and projects $25 million in annual revenue; Element was recognized as a Digital Public Good; Unleash announced it is moving its open-source core to AGPLv3; ClickHouse celebrated ten years in open source; Aptean acquired ROTOR Software GmbH to expand its dealer management systems offerings; and Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek spoke with Computerworld about digital sovereignty and the growing geopolitical relevance of open source.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Aikido Security, Blaxel, InsForge, Kernel, Moonshot AI, ParadeDB, Robusta, RudderStack, T3 Chat, and Tesseral.