Here's the one-hundred ninety-third 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 Rustdesk crosssing 70K stars, Godot's release of version 4.3, Appflowy, Cal.com, & Dub.co in the open-source spotlight, discussions on Meta and Bittensor, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
TechCrunch: "Open source tools to boost your productivity tcrn.ch/4dv8KaC" Link
const: "Bittensor's core consensus algorithm is called "Yuma" which is effectively a neural layer converting stake at the first layer to incentives (mapped over the miners) at the second layer. But the art, and the field of neural incentive design is just beginning: Yuma is the perceptron of 1943. Bittensor will require a PyTorch moment for incentive designers to reach its full potential." Link
JJ: "Fully agree. My friend @kelseyhightower first proposed this to @ramin_m_h and I a couple years ago.." Link
Steven Tey: "Thrilled to share that @dubdotco has been featured on the front page of @techcrunch as one of the top open-source productivity tools Also mentioned were some of my favorite OSS products: @calcom, @ghost, @chatwootapp, etc. Link to article → d.to/2Esgxha" Link
Sid Sijbrandij: "To grow a startup quickly, demand needs to grow alongside the product. When a single person is responsible for both it's nearly impossible to put pressure on one without loosening up on the other. Starting with two distinct co-founders ensures both get attention. opencoreventures.com/blog/2024-08-t..." Link
Kelsey Hightower: "Consuming a constant stream of information isn't thinking. You're being calibrated." Link
rustdesk: "We reaches 70K on @GitHub! It came sooner than expected. Thanks to devs, they work tirelessly to address endless compatibility issues. Thanks to contributors and users. Thanks to self-hosed Pro plan users, we're able to support our families while writing #opensource" Link
Godot Engine: "259 days 3,520 commits 521 contributors We present to you: Godot 4.3 godotengine.org/releases/4.3/ We hope you enjoy the new release page format as much as we did preparing it!" Link
Alex Heath: "Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt had Stanford pull a recent talk he gave where he said Google was caught off guard by ChatGPT because employees were working from home. It turns out that wasn't the only eye-popping thing he said during the talk: theverge.com/2024/8/14/2422..." Link
Juan Linietsky: "I can't express how happy this makes me. In a decade, #GodotEngine went from me pushing the boulder alone to, nowadays, just contributing a drop of water within an ocean. Massive respect to all this incredibly skilled people bringing such an amazing piece of software to you!" Link
Emi: "The Godot games in the top 10 - theflavorzone.itch.io/all-the-better... - celestialscholar.itch.io/elementsofespi... - dl4e.itch.io/lightsout Congrats everyone!" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Did you know? In Godot 4.3 you can create a local RenderingDevice, which lets you use the GPU independently from rendering and purely for game logic. Compute is the ultimate way to simulate millions of entities, sandbox simulation, etc. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/clas" Link
JJ: "Meta is winning in centralized open weights AI because they don't need to directly monetize the models (ads money printer). Bittensor will offer an even greater subsidy at $30K~ / token (100X~) .. but permissionlesly, fully decentralized and for the people by the people." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,660 jobs and 317 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 4.96% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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