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COSS Weekly #131

Here's the one-hundred thirty-first issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.

We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).

Last week saw $44.1M in funding announcements from Together, Union, Hanko, and GitStart, Stability AI open sourcing Dream Studio, open weights for LLMs, and more.

Enjoy!


💰 COSS Funding: $44.1M

  • Together, a decentralized cloud for AI, announced their $20M Seed led by Lux Capital. Link
  • Union, an AI orchestration tool, announced their $19.1M Series A led by NEA and Nava Ventures. Link
  • Hanko, a platform for passkeys, announced their funding round led by adesso Ventures. Link
  • GitStart, a coding as a service company, announced their $5M Seed led by Neo. Link
  • TechCrunch: "Daily Crunch: OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI receive half of Sound Ventures' $240M AI fund" Link

📚 COSS Content

  • Didier Lopes: "New project on GitHub that relies on OpenBB https://t.co/b5bYLSCbzE 👀 https://t.co/TTjbC7rQX0Link

  • JJ: ""Open Source is the ONLY path to achieving trust and transparency" https://t.co/QyoqLVaSl0Link

  • OpenBB 🦋: "Unleash the power of the OpenBB Terminal 3.0! 🦋 Master the event commands: - Filter by Hour (ET) ⏰ - Country 🌍 - Event 📅 - Actual, consensus, previous data 🔍 - Specific dates 📆 Export as PNG, CSV, or XLSX 📁 https://t.co/DMo6tLrgK3Link

  • Open Source Startup Podcast🎙: "E86 of the Open Source Startup Podcast is up🎙 @tnachen & @amanda_robs talk w/ @kcqon of @SlimDevOps about building secure containers faster⚡️ This episode digs into the shift left security movement, the early days of Docker Slim & more👇https://t.co/lpJXMNbkyiLink

  • Cal.com: "Sometimes less is more especially when it comes to cold starts on serverless. together with the community we've reduced cold starts by up to 10x introducing v2.9! https://t.co/dKBX1QSi1CLink

  • Sid Sijbrandij: "AI models with downloadable weights are sometimes called open source even when they are only for non-commercial use. This restriction in field of endeavour is against the common Open Source Initiative definition of open source. How about we call them open weight models instead?" Link

  • JJ: "@sytses I like this proposal for a few key reasons: 1) open source and free software were invented to be applied to source code ... neural net weights are fundamentally NOT source code 2) this would avoid "open source washing" 3) standardizing on Open Weights (OW) models (ie OW LLMs)... https://t.co/Su8eyWnUgWLink

  • hardmaru: "The open-source community may soon have to transition to using BitTorrent to distribute checkpoints for large machine learning models, rather than relying on centralized model hubs." Link

  • Wei Lien Dang: "Do GitHub stars matter? The results are in! Think of stars as a measure of relative mindshare, like an OSS marketing share of voice. It's best to compare stars to peer projects or w/in the same category. For benchmarks, here's a dataset from 60+ co's: https://t.co/r8f6Kh3Jm2 https://t.co/wX1RHzD8ppLink

  • COSS Community 🌏: "@weiliendang https://t.co/X8iINdrG8x" [Link](https://twitter.com/weiliendang/status/1658507508942802945)

  • TechCrunch: "Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub, a Kubernetes-native API management service https://t.co/WIIacX9D7QLink

  • Daniel Gross: "Microsoft open-sources a new AI library that connects to open-source GPTs, not just OpenAI. https://t.co/wxrBtHCmIC https://t.co/nCjdA7hj2ZLink

  • Harry Stebbings: "What a 🔥 episode coming tomorrow with @EMostaque @StabilityAI on: Why the AI bubble will be a bigger bubble than the .com? Why no models used today will be used in a year? Why all models are biased and how AI kills much of traditional media? 🔥 👇 https://t.co/QmZAzPxizYLink

  • Craig McLuckie: "Excited to announce the Stacklok with @decodebytes. We will be focusing on securing the software supply chain for with developer friendly open source technology. https://t.co/aJgidfw6C8Link

  • Peer Richelsen 🗓🍊⚡️: "every @calcom issue now has a priority! I looked at over 700 issues and labeled them correctly. 🤯 https://t.co/akfqBSJV2a+ https://t.co/4JHVxADGFkLink

  • Jim O'Shaughnessy: ".@EMostaque, the founder and CEO of @StabilityAI on @cnbc today https://t.co/e6gGF51dePLink

  • Alain Schlesser: "Quite an impressive round of "founders" and a historic moment: @mikelittlezed1 , @Dries & @photomatt together on stage for the first time ever at @wpvip's #BigWP event in London! #WordPress #Drupal #OpenSource https://t.co/GeEE6HyhuOLink

  • Koby Conrad: "Super random but I am convinced @calcom is going to be an absolutely massive company Their founder Peer has been low key consistently executing for years and it shows A stoic march to the heavens 📈" Link

  • Chang Xu: "1/ Should I go open source or stay closed in the LLM/gen AI ecosystem? Stability has constantly pushed our thinking here with their bold moves. It is very topical as @StabilityAI announced they're open sourcing DreamStudio in the form of StableStudio." Link

  • JJ: "If you are unserious about making great software, you'll largely consume open source. If you are serious about making great software, you'll largely produce open source." Link

  • The Next Platform: "Meta Platforms has spent the past three years designing and deploying its own AI inference engine. Here is why, and how. Spoiler alert: RISC-V comes into play here, as you expect. https://t.co/Np2FARmQuoLink

  • Convex: ""...but where's the GitHub link?" We hear you. Open-source Convex is coming: https://t.co/d5WivvxsrQLink

  • COSS Community 🌏: "@convex_dev https://t.co/zALWarK2ZI" [Link](https://twitter.com/convex_dev/status/1659674540149202946)

  • Thomas Wolf: "realized yesterday that if a closed-source AI company had invented flash attention nobody would know about it -- and this makes me sad for the current state of AI knowledge sharing many cool AI algorithmic improvements are probably already being kept behind closed doors https://t.co/tRhtOE6MqDLink

  • JJ: "👍🏼 https://t.co/FHGytcPVUjLink

  • Timur Ercan: "https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+docusignLink

  • Didier Lopes: "So excited about OpenBB. You'd think that the excitement level goes down over time, but it's actually the opposite. Talking with professionals in the industry and how they perceive what we are doing is still mind blowing. OpenBB is bigger than all of us." Link

  • Scoutflo: "Top 50 fastest-growing OSS startups! 🚀 Open Source Product of the Day: Appflowy @appflowy is an Open Source alternative to Notion. But wait. There's more to it. Especially the WHY behind building it. 👇🏻🧵" Link\

  • Tim Sweeney: "The growth of open source AI shows that markets don't have to be captured by monopolies with ever-expanding ties and rents, as smartphones were. The internet developed from a closed university network into an open network, and the web developed as an open system from day 1." Link


💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

  • defunkt: "Early GitHub revenue: First 12 months: $1M (almost) Second 12 months: $3M Third: $9M" Link

🛠️ COSS Jobs

  • 3,460 jobs and 280 companies hiring! Link
  • Peer Richelsen 🗓🍊⚡️: "opened a new $200 bounty for\ @calcomLink

📊 $COSS - Public Markets

  • $COSS markets up 4.07% last week
  • Latest $COSS markets snapshot below as of market close last Friday courtesy of Koyfin.

Koyfin market data

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