Here's the one-hundred ninety-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 $31M in funding announcements for Black Forest Labs, the first Nintendo Switch game published using W4 ports, a documentary on Bittensor, open-source AI support from the White House, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $31M
- Black Forest Labs, building gen AI for media and images, announced their $31M Seed led by a16z. Link
📚 COSS Content
Everτ τ, τ: "Decentralized Minds, The Bittensor Revolution Decentralized Minds, The Bittensor Revolution takes you on a thought-provoking journey through the evolving world of artificial intelligence. As the narrative unfolds, it dives deep into the rapid evolving advancements of AI, the implications and the potential dangerous misuse by those in power. The film explores the ethical dilemmas we face, through compelling stories and insights it presents a hopeful vision for the future. It showcases how humanity can steer these groundbreaking technologies towards the greater good by embracing decentralized & revolutionary systems, like Bitcoin and Bittensor. Featuring: @const_reborn @shibshib89 @mogmachine @WSquires @macrocrux @0xcarro @ProfFahdKhan @benzion_b @KeithSingery @JosephJacks_ #Bittensor $TAO" Link
JJ: "I'd like to start giving public talks to preach the gospel of Bittensor (technical and introductory for a range of audiences --- AI / ML developers, open source contributors, Bitcoin OGs / miners, etc)... please invite me to your meetups and events. DMs open." Link
Amjad Masad: "What Meta is doing with LLama is fantastic, and I like most of what Zuck recently wrote. But his analogy to Linux is really bad. I wrote about this before: If Linus had taken the LLama approach to OSS, he would have graced us with only the compiled binary, not the source." Link
W4 Games: "Exciting news! The W4 Games leadership team, including @reduzio and @Akien, will be at #Gamescom2024! Don't miss the chance to meet us and discuss all things #GODOT. Schedule your meeting now! w4games.com/blog/w4-games-..." Link
Cal.com: "considering building a scheduling software yourself? please don't... why? recently our cofounder @peer_rich shared few reasons why he wouldn't recommend it to anyone. check his writing here: cal.com/blog/why-you-s..." Link
Changelog: "New Changelog interview! Open is the way with @josephjacks_ from @OSSCapital your hosts @adamstac & @jerodsanto changelog.fm/602" Link
Hoppscotch: "AI Meets Hoppscotch We're adding AI-powered features to make your API testing smoother. Starting today, you'll be able to automatically name your requests using AI. By looking at the request details, AI will automatically give selected request a relevant name, so you don't have to." Link
Heather Meeker: "Open source AI gets a shout out from the White House. apnews.com/article/ai-ope..." Link
Stanford AI Lab: "arXiv -> alphaXiv Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers. @askalphaxiv You can post questions and comments directly on top of any arXiv paper by changing arXiv to alphaXiv in any URL!" Link
Steven Tey: "We've been dogfooding @dubdotco's Real-time Events Stream feature in prod for weeks and it's been incredibly valuable: ◆ Real-time by default ◆ Show only the columns you want ◆ Filter events by link, country, etc. Excited to finally launch this x.com/dubdotco/statu..." Link
Hamel Husain: "Looks like GitHub is entering the open weights model API space I'd be interested in how they stack up wrt to cost, quality, latency esp given the variance of what we've seen in the wild with incumbents already github.blog/news-insights/..." Link
Plane: "One screen to rule them all One screen to find them. One screen to bring them all And in the calmness bind them. Get #PlanePro and power-up your Cycles like you always wanted to." Link
Tauri: "Everyone assumes your dev environment and network are safe. Tauri doesn't assume that & protects you as a dev. Tauri 2.0 RC for Mobile and Desktop available right now. Read the announcement: v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-2-0..." Link
Godot Engine: "Importing your 3D models into Godot has never been easier - thanks to the amazing work done by the animation team: godotengine.org/article/introd..." Link
W4 Games: "Congratulations to @louisdurrant for launching The Garden Path! This is the first game published using W4 Console ports for #GodotEngine. Read more in our blog post here w4games.com/blog/w4-games-..." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Richie - oss/acc: "Pleased to announce that @Cap has acquired scap, the open source capture engine from @HelmerApp The project will stay completely free and open source. This is a big step towards our vision of building the world's greatest screen recording and sharing app." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,717 jobs and 317 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 7.96% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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