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
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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