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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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Featured COSS Companies

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.

COSS Headlines

Toyota takes Tier IV stake, MoU in regional autonomy push | Automotive World

Companies mentioned: TIER IV
Funding · Automotive World

Evolving Our Open Source Commitment: Unleash is Moving to AGPLv3

Companies mentioned: Unleash
Announcement · getunleash.io

Ricoh invests in AI-native vector database startup Weaviate through the RICOH Innovation Fund

Companies mentioned: Weaviate
Funding · Ricoh

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
OSS News & Views · ClickHouse Blog

Ant Group Looks to Raise $1 Billion For International Growth

Companies mentioned: Ant Group
Funding · PYMNTS

Introducing eve, an open-source agent framework

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · Vercel Blog

OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup

Companies mentioned: Anomaly
Announcement · Awesome Agents

Aptean Acquires ROTOR To Expand Dealer Management Systems Offerings

Companies mentioned: Aptean
Announcement · Pulse 2.0

Chainguard commits $50M and 100 engineers to save open source from Mythos.

Companies mentioned: Chainguard
Announcement · LinkedIn

Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther, Further Establishing the Security Lakehouse Category

Companies mentioned: Databricks
Announcement · Databricks Newsroom

Databricks revenue growth tops 80% to $6.9 billion annualized

Companies mentioned: Databricks
OSS News & Views · CNBC

Element recognised as a Digital Public Good

Companies mentioned: Element
Announcement · Element Blog

Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage

Companies mentioned: Nextcloud
Media Mention · Computerworld

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Featured COSS Companies

Moonshot AI

Open-weight LLM developer behind Kimi

Aikido Security

All-in-one AppSec platform for devs

Blaxel

Perpetual sandbox platform for AI agents

T3 Chat

Multi-model AI chat app and dev tools

InsForge

Agent-native cloud infrastructure platform

Kernel

Open source browser infrastructure for AI agents

ParadeDB

Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres

RudderStack

Customer data platform for real-time data

Robusta

AI-powered observability for Kubernetes

Tesseral

Open source auth infrastructure for B2B SaaS

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COSS Weekly: VoidZero acquired by Cloudflare, Ona acquired by OpenAI, PhoenixAI raises $80M, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: The recent flurry of COSS M&A activity continues as VoidZero was acquired by Cloudflare and Ona was acquired by OpenAI. Meanwhile, on the funding front, PhoenixAI raised an $80M Series B to power its agentic AI database, Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at a €20B valuation, Mindverse raised ~$50M in a Series A, and Databricks is reportedly in talks to raise a fresh round at a valuation of over $165B. In other announcements, JFrog and NanoClaw launched an AI agent security integration, Bluesky announced a new communities feature, Nous Research joined Nvidia’s Nemotron Coalition, and Chai Discovery signed a licensing deal with Pfizer. Databricks announced its new storage ecosystem, Red Hat and IBM committed $5B to securing open source in the AI era, Firecrawl was profiled for its rapid growth, and OpenRouter data has revealed that American AI startups are quietly shifting traffic to Chinese LLMs.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Anyscale, Formbricks, LiveKit, Multica, Ona, OpenSEO, PhoenixAI, Redpanda, Styra, and Ycode.

COSS Headlines

VoidZero is Joining Cloudflare

Companies mentioned: VoidZero
Announcement · VoidZero Blog

Bluesky is getting ‘communities’

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Announcement · The Verge

Databricks in talks to raise funds at over $165 billion, The Information reports

Companies mentioned: Databricks
OSS News & Views · Reuters

Announcing the Databricks storage ecosystem: Governing the enterprise data estate, wherever it lives

Companies mentioned: Databricks, MinIO
Announcement · Databricks Blog

How a San Francisco open-source project became the data layer for global AI

Companies mentioned: Firecrawl
Media Mention · sfweekly.com

Mindverse raises ~$50M Series A led by Meituan, to open-source 750B GLM 5.1 agent model

Companies mentioned: Mindverse
Funding · Dealroom.co

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Funding · TechCrunch

Nous Research Joins Nvidia Nemotron Coalition To Advance Open AI Models

Companies mentioned: Nous Research
Announcement · Digg

OpenRouter data shows American AI startups quietly shifting traffic to Chinese LLMs

Companies mentioned: OpenRouter
OSS News & Views · CryptoBriefing

PhoenixAI Raises $80M Series B Led by Sky9 Capital to Power the Agentic AI Database

Companies mentioned: PhoenixAI
Funding · PhoenixAI Newsroom

Chai Discovery Announces License Agreement with Pfizer to Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI

Companies mentioned: Chai Discovery
Announcement · Yahoo Finance

Ona is joining OpenAI

Companies mentioned: Ona
Announcement · Ona Blog

NanoClaw and JFrog launch 'immune system' to block AI agents from downloading malicious code

Companies mentioned: JFrog, NanoCo
Announcement · VentureBeat

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era

Companies mentioned: Red Hat
Announcement · Red Hat

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Featured COSS Companies

Multica

Open-source managed agents platform

Ycode

Open source visual website builder and CMS

OpenSEO

Open-source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs

PhoenixAI

Cloud analytics platform built on StarRocks

Ona

Privacy-first AI development platform.

Redpanda

Fast, Kafka-compatible streaming platform

Formbricks

Open-source experience management platform

LiveKit

OSS platform for building audio and video apps

Anyscale

AI compute platform built on Ray

Styra

Policy-based access control for software.

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COSS Weekly: Supabase achieves $10B valuation, DeepSeek eyes $7B funding round, Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Supabase raised a $500M Series F at a $10B valuation led by GIC, DeepSeek is set to raise $7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL, and Martin Scorsese (yes, that Martin Scorsese) signed on as partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs. Other highlights include the Fivetran and dbt Labs merger completion, Neo4j's acquisition of GraphAware, Harness acquiring Codecov from Sentry, and funding chatter for Baseten ($1B at $11B valuation), Socket ($60M Series C), Zyphra ($500M), and Chai Discovery ($400M).

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: SpectorOps, Tremor, Cua, Tyk, dstack, Maxim AI, Malak, Scira, Plunk, and Stella.

COSS Headlines

Inference Firm Baseten Eyes Funding Round at $11 Billion Valuation

Companies mentioned: Baseten
Funding · PYMNTS

Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry to Strengthen Software Delivery Governance in the AI Era | Harness Press

Companies mentioned: Harness
Announcement · Harness Press

Mistral CEO Says the Pope's Comments Are a Big Problem for Europe's War on American Tech

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
OSS News & Views · Gizmodo

Artificial Intelligence Lab Zyphra Raising $500 Million To Challenge Nvidia Dominance

Companies mentioned: Zyphra
Funding · Forbes

DeepSeek slated to draw $7 billion in maiden fundraising, sources say

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · Reuters

Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

Companies mentioned: Automattic
OSS News & Views · The Register

Fivetran + dbt Labs Complete Merger to Create the Data Infrastructure for Trusted AI Agents

Companies mentioned: dbt Labs
Announcement · dbt Labs Blog

Neo4j Acquires GraphAware to Launch Intelligence Analysis Alternative to Palantir Gotham

Companies mentioned: Neo4j
Announcement · Neo4j

Supabase Series F

Companies mentioned: Supabase
Funding · Supabase Blog

Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Announcement · TechCrunch

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
Announcement · TechCrunch

Why Pfizer And Eli Lilly Are Betting On This $1.3 Billion AI Drug Discovery Startup

Companies mentioned: Chai Discovery
OSS News & Views · Forbes

Socket raises $60M Series C at $1B valuation led by Thrive Capital to secure AI-driven software development

Companies mentioned: Socket
Funding · Socket Blog

Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs

Companies mentioned: Stability AI
Announcement · TechCrunch

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Featured COSS Companies

Maxim AI

Creator of Bitfrost, an AI gateway platform

dstack

Open-source control plane for AI infra

Stella

Opensource legal workspace

Malak

Open-source investor relations hub

Scira

Open-source AI-powered research agent

Plunk

Open-source email platform for SaaS

SpecterOps

Identity attack path management solutions

Tyk

Open-source full lifecycle API management

Cua

Open-source computer-use agent platform

Tremor

React components for charts and dashboards

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COSS Weekly: ClickHouse triples its revenue, OpenRouter doubles its valuation in one year, WordPress' battle with WPEngine rages on, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:10:29 +0000

This week in COSS: ClickHouse tripled its annualized revenue to $250M and is charting a path toward an IPO, OpenRouter more than doubled its valuation to $1.3B after raising a $113M Series B led by Google's CapitalG, and the long-running legal battle between WordPress (Automattic) and WP Engine continues to drag on with no resolution in sight. JFrog reports on the tidal wave of threats to software supply chain security, and OpenClaw continues to gain momentum and competitors. Deepchecks joins Check Point, while Indian startup Flexprice raises a $1.5M seed round.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Fincept, FlexPrice, Inngest, Mike OSS, OpenWhispr, Postiz, Quant-UX, Requestly, Sync-in, and Voltagent.

COSS Headlines

ClickHouse triples annualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
OSS News & Views · TechCrunch

Check Point acquires Deepchecks’ team and technology to advance AI

Companies mentioned: Deepchecks
Funding · CTech

Lyzr AI raises from In-Q-Tel

Companies mentioned: Lyzr
Funding · Axios

Yes, the WordPress battle with WP Engine is still going on.

Companies mentioned: Automattic
OSS News & Views · The Verge

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · VentureBeat

Flexprice raises $1.5m seed funding led by Shastra VC

Companies mentioned: FlexPrice
Funding · The Economic Times (India)

JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security

Companies mentioned: JFrog
Media Mention · The New Stack

OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. Then Google launched Spark.

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

Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · The Verge

Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem

Companies mentioned: Starburst Data
Announcement · SiliconANGLE

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Companies mentioned: OpenRouter
Funding · TechCrunch

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Featured COSS Companies

Mike OSS

Open-source legal AI platform

OpenWhispr

Open-source voice-to-text dictation app

Quant-UX

Open-source UX prototyping & research tool

Fincept

AI-powered open-source financial terminal

Sync-in

Open-source file sync and collaboration platform

FlexPrice

Monetization platform for AI/agentic companies

Requestly

Free & open-source API development platform.

Voltagent

Open source TypeScript framework for AI agents

Postiz

Social media management and scheduling tool.

Inngest

AI workflow orchestration platform

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COSS Weekly: OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw Raises $12M, Dust Raises $40M, Sonar Acquires Gitar, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

This week in COSS: NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, turned down a $20M buyout offer and raised a $12M seed round; Dust raised a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform; Sonar acquired Gitar to expand its code verification platform; Mistral AI acquired Emmi AI in an industrial push; and Deno Land continued its challenge of Oracle's JavaScript trademark.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Blindside Networks, Confluent, Dria, EvoMap, NanoCo, Omi, OpenSRE, Parrot Security, Vates, and Workbrew.

COSS Headlines

Oracle lays mines in JavaScript trademark battle

Companies mentioned: Deno
OSS News & Views · The Register

Announcing the Zulip Foundation

Companies mentioned: Zulip
Announcement · Zulip Blog

Mistral AI buys Austrian physics AI startup in industrial push

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Announcement · Reuters

What Marketers Can Learn From A small AI Startup That Said No To Elon

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
OSS News & Views · Forbes

AWS nabs white hot gen AI media creation startup fal, becoming its preferred cloud provider

Companies mentioned: FAL.AI
Announcement · VentureBeat

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead

Companies mentioned: NanoCo
Funding · TechCrunch

Meet the brothers who turned a homegrown AI agent into a $12 million bet on the future of work — in six weeks

Companies mentioned: NanoCo
OSS News & Views · Fortune

Sonar Acquires Gitar, Expanding Code Verification Platform to Include AI Code Review

Companies mentioned: SonarSource
Announcement · Sonar Newsroom

Dust raises $40M Series B to scale multiplayer AI for human-agent collaboration

Companies mentioned: Dust
Funding · Dust Blog

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

Companies mentioned: GitButler
Media Mention · The Register

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Featured COSS Companies

Parrot Security

Debian-based Linux distro for cybersecurity

Blindside Networks

Open-source virtual classroom hosting

Vates

Open source virtualization platform

NanoCo

Creators of OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw

Confluent

Cloud-native data streaming platform

EvoMap

AI agent self-evolution infrastructure

Workbrew

Enterprise Homebrew management platform

Dria

Decentralized AI inference network

Omi

Open-source AI wearable for memory

OpenSRE

Open-source AI SRE agent framework

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COSS Weekly: RadixArk launches with $100M in seed funding, Hermes Agent surpasses OpenClaw, SAP invests in n8n at a $5.2B valuation, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: n8n announces a strategic investment from SAP that doubles its valuation to $5.2 billion, RadixArk launches with $100 million in seed funding to build open infrastructure for frontier AI, and the open source community debates whether AI is a threat or an asset to code security following Cal.com's decision to close its source.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Bubble Lab, Discourse, Insomnia, JumpServer, Karakeep, Legal Data Hunter, ntfy.sh, Pirsch Analytics, Read the Docs, Sayr, Swetrix, Tailscale, Tolgee, Vitality, and Wraps.

COSS Headlines

AI has a sprawling data problem. Airbyte has just launched a tool to fix it.

Companies mentioned: Airbyte
Media Mention · The New Stack

Kilo Code Raises $8M Seed Round to Scale Open-Source AI Coding Agent

Companies mentioned: Kilo Code
Funding · VC Tavern

The Lost Pixel Team Is Joining Figma

Companies mentioned: Lost Pixel
Announcement · lost-pixel.com

How OpenAI scaled to 900 million weekly users with Ory

Companies mentioned: Ory
Media Mention · The New Stack

Our $100M Seed to Build Open Infrastructure for Frontier AI

Companies mentioned: RadixArk
Funding · RadixArk Blog

Announcing SAP’s strategic investment in n8n

Companies mentioned: n8n
Funding · n8n Blog

OpsMill Raises $14 Million in Series A to Fund Product Development & Growth

Companies mentioned: OpsMill
Funding · OpsMill

AI's not going to kill open source code security

Companies mentioned: Cal.com
OSS News & Views · The Register

Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins

Companies mentioned: Cal.com
OSS News & Views · XDA Developers

Hermes Agent Just Took OpenClaw’s OpenRouter Top Spot

Companies mentioned: Nous Research, OpenRouter, OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · RoboRhythms

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Featured COSS Companies

Sayr

Source-available project management tool

Discourse

Open-source community discussion platform

Tolgee

Open-source app localization platform

Read the Docs

Documentation hosting and build platform

Pirsch Analytics

Privacy-friendly, cookieless web analytics

Swetrix

Cookieless, open-source web analytics

Wraps

Open-source AWS email infrastructure

Bubble Lab

AI-native workflow automation platform

Tailscale

Zero-config VPN built on WireGuard

Legal Data Hunter

Open legal data index for 110+ countries

ntfy.sh

Open-source push notification service

Insomnia

Open-source API client & testing platform

Karakeep

AI-powered self-hostable bookmark manager

JumpServer

Open-source PAM platform for secure access

Vitality

AI-powered fitness & nutrition tracker

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COSS Weekly: CopilotKit raises $27M, SAP's COSS shopping spree, Anaconda acquires Outerbounds, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: CopilotKit raised a $27M Series A, SAP announced plans to acquire both Dremio and Prior Labs, Anaconda acquired Outerbounds, IREN acquired OpenStack champion Mirantis, DeepSeek previewed its V4 model and is reportedly targeting a $45B valuation, OpenObserve closed a $10M Series A, Socket acquired Secure Annex, and Ant Group received Chinese regulatory approval to raise $1.5B .

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Amical, Brave, Deciso, DeepSource, Entire, Filigran, Inferact, Inth, NativeLink, RadixArk, Seita, and Tangled.