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

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

More COSS Companies →

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